There are deleted scenes from "Jesus Camp" that may be even creepier than the actual documentary.

So Rachael's "gifts" are conversing with imaginary beings, speaking gibberish, and seeing things that are not there.

Yeah we have a definition for that in the secular world as well, and it's called "Schizophrenia."

Did you ever wonder what happened to that kid Levi from the documentary "Jesus Camp?" Well here you go.

So apparently his indoctrination took.

I find it interesting that he did not find anything wrong with how the documentary portrayed him, and in fact seems to think of it as a positive thing. Yet he is still firmly entrenched in the world that the film exposed.

But wait he's seen babies raised from the dead? Does he work in a ICU?

I can honestly say that I don't think any documentary upset me as much as Jesus Camp did.

At the end of the film I was actually shaking and very upset with how these impressionable children were being lied to and manipulated.

Perhaps the filmmakers should do a follow up to see where all of those kids ended up, and if their faith is still as strong as Levi's?

I would watch that.

Two extremes in child education. Carl Sagan expanding young minds in a science class and the folks at Jesus Camp closing them off in order to protect their efforts with indoctrination.

I don't think the difference could be more stark.

One teaching philosophy welcomes new information and embraces the opportunity to have our minds expanded or changed, the other treats knowledge like an enemy and prepares the students to resist and even attack anything which might shake their faith that all of their questions have already been answered.

Religious Right in a rage over "homosexual indoctrination" in public schools.

This from God Discussion:

The following video put together by Mass Resistance, a group in Massachusetts that is still fighting gay marriage and tolerance of the LGBT community, is an example of "the evil of this radical facet of the Leftist enemy" according to a forum poster at the You Know It's About Liberty forum. Showing that children of same sex parents have trouble with permission slips, that gays or lesbians are bullied, and that there are famous gay and lesbian people has enraged some of the people at It's About Liberty, one of whom had to "suppress the impulse to reach out and throttle anyone who would deliberately seek to pervert children." Anther wrote, "Suffice it to say anybody sending a kid to a public school like this is truly endangering their child!"



Look I am well aware that I am one of those "Godless, liberal, America hating, socialists." But having admitted that, I watched this supposedly shocking  video showing the "insidious indoctrination of school children," and was left feeling extremely impressed with the sensitivity and openness the educators involved demonstrated while teaching this topic of mutual respect and acceptance.

At a time when we are learning that school programs which support gay rights can dramatically decrease the number of teen suicides among their students, watching how the teachers in this video addressed this sensitive issue made me feel hopeful about the youth of tomorrow, not frightened for them.

In fact, in my opinion, the word "indoctrination" was completely misused as a description of what I saw.

Which got me to thinking about a movie I once watched that I felt DID feature aggressive indoctrination.  See if you can spot the difference.

(From the movie Jesus Camp.)



Where would you rather send YOUR children?

(H/T to the Daily Kos.)