Read, weep, and take a shower

Not a good day.  First Chak posts the link to the GSS data about 
how little people know about science - even noncontroversial 
topics like the earth going around the sun.

Then "Jesus Camp" arrives in the mail today, and we watch it this 
evening.  If you haven't heard of it, it's a do***entary about 
Evangelical Christians and their attempts to brainwash their 
children.

It was done in such a way that (according to one of the 
filmmakers) the people who are shown in the do***entary thought 
that the film ****trays them and their values fairly.

But they objected to clips of a liberal Christian Air America 
commentator who thinks they represent a perversion of 
Christianity.  The camp leader talks with this host telling him 
that democracy is ok, but it leaves too much freedom and the only 
solution for the country is for everyone to follow Jesus.

A home-schooling mother is shown laughing about how science 
doesn't "prove" anything.  The film alleges that 75% of 
home-schooled children are from Evangelical families.

At the Jesus Camp, kids are encouraged to speak in tongues.  A 
preacher p***** out plastic dolls that look like miniature 
newborn infants, and alleges about one that's about an inch high, 
"this one is seven weeks old."  He tells them that 1/3 of their 
friends were never born because they were aborted.  The camp 
leader goes off on a rant about the evils of Harry Potter, how 
warlocks are against God.  Kids are shown breaking down in tears 
of anguish and ecstasy.  In a scene that depicts them being told 
to pray "for" Bush, complete with a life-size stand-up 
photograph-on-cardboard, it looks more like they are praying TO him.

It ends with a group of kids - who look to be about 10 -  going 
out into a park proselytizing.  They're very good at repeating 
the words and phrases used to indoctrinate them.

Humminuh-humminuh-humminuh.

Can your skin crawl while your bones feel frozen?

FurPaw

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