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Training Extremists While They Are Young

It is probably no more than an ironic coincidence that the Kids on Fire camp is in Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Or perhaps not. Kids on Fire is not your mother's summer camp; rather, it is a place where children--some as young as six--receive instruction in glossolalia, go on field trips to political protests, and learn to chant for "righteous judges" for America.

At Kids on Fire, the children pray over a cardboard cutout of George W. Bush, and they wash their hands in bottled water to cleanse themselves of their wicked ways and drive out the devil. Some children are filled with the Holy Spirit and go down in a trance-like state. One little girl is said to have been "pinned to the floor" for over an hour by the Holy Spirit. Children describe seeing "gold dust" on their hands, feeling compelled to dance, and being "slain by the Holy Spirit."

Becky Fischer
, leader of Kids of Fire, who wants to "take back America for Christ," says "I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them radically laying down their lives for the gospel, as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine."

The documentary film, Jesus Camp, made by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, follows three children as they participate in camp activities. Opening today in Los Angeles, the film has already stirred quite a bit of attention. It won in the "scariest movie" category at the Traverse City Film Festival.

One of the children in the documentary, Tory, who is ten years old, says something that is scary enough for me. Tory explains that she prefers "Christian, heavy metal rock and roll" to Britney Spears:

"When I dance, I have to make sure that that's God. People will notice when I'm just dancing for the flesh."

Posted by Diane E. Dees on 09/29/06 at 12:16 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |



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I can see the right wing fundamentalist conspiracy working hard at this, just another Karl Rove, Bush right wing insanity and the most blatant christian fascist 'pimping of innocent children'for the Repub party and Georgie boy the christ, by his own claims of course. Same as the white supremacists, no different. This is all just more evidence of the sick thinking of the radical right wing religious theocratic fundamentalists. One can see the same thing being done by the Catholics by watching EWTN the Catholic cable channel.
I may be Catholic but not that kind of catholic which is sick and wrong.

Posted by: Bob DAmico on 09/29/06 at 7:40 PM

Wow. There are too many people in this world with way too much time on their hands. Why don't they all join VISTA or the Peace Corps (Do these organizations even exist any more?) and do something with their hands and minds to improve people's lives? I have definitley noticed that the most religiously out-there people (many of them Mormon) I have met are the ones having the most children...I have met several people who have 6 children, and one who was lord and master of his household with a subservient wife, and 10 children, with no intention to stop. Does anyone believe in moderation? Is the passage 'Go forth and multiply' an edict to commit planetary suicide? Are all these children meant to populate 'God's Army'(whose God...the Mormons' version...the Baptists...the Catholics...the Scientologists?) and battle the heritics and infidels (Muslims? Buddhists? Methodists?. Can't we go back to the days when Sesame Street taught tolerance and respect for others? It is a simple mathematical fact that if each woman alive had anaverage of 2.1 children, the Earth's population would plateau and remain at the same level as long as we held to that number of children per woman. Given that some people, by choice or by nature, have one or no children during their lives, a prportionate number of other women could have three or four, perhaps occasionally five children, as long as the median was 2.1 kids per woman. But then we couldn't grow mobs of religious fanatics to go to war with each other over limited resources, self-fullfilling old stories written in old books. Maybe after we are gone the Apes will do better (Planet of the Apes, anyone?).

Posted by: Moon Shadow on 09/30/06 at 11:36 AM

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