This from the filmmaker's website:
Kidnapped for Christ follows the stories of several American teenagers who were sent to Escuela Caribe, an American-run Evangelical Christian reform school in The Dominican Republic. Students are sent to Esceula Caribe by their parents, for offenses ranging from drug use to running away to suicide attempts, or for simply not getting along with their parents. The film centers on David, a straight-A student who was sent to Escuela Caribe after coming out to his parents as gay. David was taken in the night without warning by a "transport service" and was never told where he was going or when he would return home. Once David's community found out what had happened to him, they formed a plan to bring him home on his 18th birthday. The struggles they faced to get David released revealed just how far Escuela Caribe would go to prevent a student from leaving.
As the parent of a very headstrong young woman, I have to say that there have been times that I have been pretty frustrated with her, but the idea of having her tied and spirited away to a third world country for "discipline" is something that I simply could NEVER have imagined considering.
And neither should anybody else. ESPECIALLY for being gay.
There are some people who simply should not be parents. And anybody who would use such tactics on their own children are certainly numbered among them.
This is sick. I have a music student who is involved with the Campus Crusade for Christ on a Big 10 campus. He spent spring break in 'a dark country where they haven't heard about the saving grace of Jesus.' He wrote me a letter requesting money, then wrote another when they returned. He never once mentioned WHERE they went, only that there was a university there, and 90% of the nation was Muslim. Can you imagine the uproar if a bunch of Muslim college students came over here trying to convert students? What is it with the fundie Christians? Believe what you want, but leave other nations alone. They are just as committed to their beliefs as you are, and it is THEIR country. It's almost as if they are afraid Christianity is dying out, and they have to announce God's grace to everyone they can as soon as possible. By the way, this group takes up so much time my student has stopped playing, and he was one of the most talented kids I ever had. He gave up a true gift to evangelize. Sad.
ReplyDeleteAnd those gifts, which many would call gifts of God, should not be wasted. What a shame.
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They do it because it's in the bible.
DeleteI don't have one handy, but I'll bet it's the work of Paul. Paul gets more face time with the fundies than Jesus himself. Why? Because he was a misogynist and his words can be used to justify all of their abuses and excesses.
Take all of Paul's writing OUT of the bible and see what you have left for the Talibangelicals to use against us.
Unfortunately, so many of those who shouldn't be parents or even be anywhere near children, have the deluded belief that they are exactly the right kind of parents
ReplyDeleteRight here in the United States of America fathers and mothers sell their daughter's to violent muslim men. These men own these women and are allowed to abuse them beyond, belief.
ReplyDeleteI use to be very religious and today I am an atheist. What I have been through, proves to me, there is NO god. Just a bunch of cruel and mean people, that love to destroy others, in the name of some fairy tale violent religion.
There are some nice people out there, that follow religions, but religion itself, is a bunch of BS!
Did you mean the Mormon religion? Where 14 yr old girls are traded or sold off to marriage at age 14?
DeleteBut you are correct, religion was created as a way to control the poor and keep them in their place. It then went to controlling wives, women, and children.
Thank goodness this young man had such loyal friends, he will do quite well with never seeing his family again.
DeleteIt s not just Muslim men, it is also white bread fundie mormons. You know like that fuck head Jeffers. No one religion has a lock on treating their children like slaves and their women like chattel.
Deletea parent that okays a child to be taken out of country against their will is not a parent.
ReplyDeleteYes, isn't that a violation of federal law?
DeleteThis film made me cry. Why would anyone do this? How can anyone that professes to loving their child send them to a forced labor camp? How did they get these unwilling teens through customs?
ReplyDeleteOh, so now rendition is added to the list of things that the American Apostate Church considers to be kosher. The only missing ingredient now seems to be female circumcision, but I'm sure it's soon to come. Of course, since their minds are so creative in the area of perversion, perhaps I am wrong and the yet-to-be-revealed list of awful things will be much, much longer.
ReplyDeleteWe need to view this in a larger context. If they will do this to their own children, what will they do to us??????? No, seriously.
ReplyDeleteSpanking your wife, putting your children in a third world prison.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone doubt the fundamentalist right considers white males superior and women and children property?
These are the family values they want to force on the rest of us.
Make no mistake. After they subjugate women through legislation and buying up all the hospitals, they'll go after the children. They'll repeal all of the child labor protection laws while they privatize schools. Then you'll see a big push (using standardized tests) to create a trade school track and children (most poor and of color) will be pushed into those schools. And their education will consist of learning assembly line techniques that coincidentally provide free labor to the likes of Walmart through manufacturers that heavily support the right wing through their citizens united unlimited financial contributions.
This is where we are heading. Time to start looking at the big picture, the long game. Learn the history of the last 50 years then look at where we are heading in the next 100 years.
Anyone who simply looks at the next election and no further is a fool.
There is a book written about this place, called "Jesus Land", by Julia Schieres. She and her brother were sent there for several years as teenagers. I don't think they ever spoke to their parents again.
ReplyDeleteIt sounded more like "Hell On Earth Land".
"Both my parents were standing there saying 'we love you David, we love you'"
ReplyDeleteDavid's parents have no clue what the word "love" means. I'm sure, ahem, they'd be able to find lovely quotes from the Bible and any other source of fairy tales to defend their actions, but what they're doing in essence is child abuse and emotional blackmail "I'll love you IF you.." (fill in the blanks).
These people don't deserve to be called parents, they barely deserve to be called humans.
Paul? Really? Paul’s early life was marked by religious zeal, brutal violence, and the relentless persecution of the early church. The later years of Paul’s life show a marked difference as he lived his life for Christ and the advancement of the kingdom of God. Christian's are required to adhere to the teachings of the apostles. Paul was an apostle, he was chosen by Christ. Paul's letters (epistles) are in total agreement with the other disciples. Those people in the video were about abuse, laws and rules. Paul said that anyone to desired to live by religious laws were severed from Christ, and have fallen from grace (Galatians 5:1-6). He said that the only thing that counts is faith working through love (Galatians 5:6). It's not about following religious laws, or living by a list of do's an don'ts.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that the bible does talk about abuse, incest, murder, rape, etc.... but it never condones it, it never teaches it. Yes, I do take the bible literaly, I believe it from beginning to end, even Paul's letters. I try to live by what the bible teaches, BUT NOT by what it says, those are two very different things. If people (Christians) actually emphasized what the bible emphasized, and minimized what the bible minimizes, it would clear up a lot of issues. The bible actually TEACHES that women can supervise in businesses and even own them. The bible TEACHES that religious building are NOT required, nor needed, in fact they are really a waste of money. Christians aren't required to have altars, holidays, observe days of the week, etc.....
Those people in the video were about abuse, laws and rules. Paul said that anyone to desired to live by religious laws were severed from Christ, and have fallen from grace (Galatians 5:1-6). He said that the only thing that counts is faith working through love (Galatians 5:6). It's not about following religious laws, or living by a list of do's an don'ts.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that the bible does talk about abuse, incest, murder, rape, etc.... but it never condones it, it never teaches it. Yes, I do take the bible literaly, I believe it from beginning to end, even Genesis, Jonah, and Revelation. I try to live by what the bible teaches, BUT NOT by what it says, those are two very different things. If people (Christians) actually emphasized what the bible emphasized, and minimized what the bible minimizes, it would clear up a lot of issues. The bible actually TEACHES that women can supervise in businesses and even own them. The bible TEACHES that religious building are NOT required, nor needed, in fact they are really a waste of money. Christians aren't required to have altars, holidays, observe days of the week, etc.....