tristenjones-74208 This documentary is honestly a perfect representation of how manipulative people can be. Seriously, this documentary is just completely blasphemous!I couldn't tell if the kids in this film were learning about God, getting closer to God, or just getting brainwashed! This documentary is a great example how religious extremism of any kind is just evil, but it's another thing when you take away the innocence of a child.After watching this, I started to reflect on my whole life, realizing how great I had it, since I didn't have to endure this nonsense. I feel sorry for all the children that had to.If you want to give this review a check out, be my guest. You will be disturbed.

cammymadden I only decided to write a review for this documentary because after reading through pages of reviews on IMDb, it seemed to me that a lot of people failed to understand its purpose. Many people giving it 1 or 2 stars because they believe this documentary to be disgusting or cruel or child abuse etc, clearly failing to understand that the entire purpose of said documentary was to highlight these exact problems!I'd been meaning to watch this for a while because I'd heard stories from friends in America about Bible camps and the like, where children are sent for what is realistically brainwashing Personally, I find all religions to have some for of mental torture involved (especially for children) so my point of view is definitely biased. However, this doesn't change the fact that this documentary does an excellent job of highlighting some major flaws with how people teach religion. If you are delusional enough to believe that religion is all good, I highly recommend watching this documentary. When you think that these children are going to spend their lives sheltered from reality, sheltered from learning, sheltered from experience, sheltered from truth: you can't help but think that these children never truly live. One issue with this documentary is that it doesn't really delve to deep into any one area of these camps. It is nothing more than an edited observation of such a camp with the occasional statistic appearing on screen. While this is a downside, it also works as a positive aspect because this documentary is only 1hr 30mins so it doesn't really drag out.

paul2001sw-1 To those of us who do not live in a part of the world where it is resurgent, evangelical Christianity appears a strange thing, one part madness, one part scam, and one part cover for vicious conservative nationalism. But the standard picture doesn't altogether prepare you for 'Jesus Camp', in which we follow the efforts of an apparently true believer to teach/indoctrinate the next generation. What we see is startlingly close to child abuse: indeed, it's hard to consider how this could not be considered abuse (in the purest sense) if it wasn't being done in the name of the established religion of the day. Quite how little of the doctrine is grounded in the words and spirit of the New Testament is also shocking, as is the way the kids learn quickly to behave as expected, and to express the same intolerant attitudes as their elders. If you hadn't thought of Christianity as a contest to prove who loves God the most before, then think again. If this documentary has a fault, it's only that it delivers the goods upfront: the first 20 minutes effectively summarise most of what follows. Still this is a pretty powerful denunciation of attitudes not just misguided, but close to pure evil, yet cloaked in false layer of suburban orthodoxy.

n-49837 Hi OK so I just finished watching this movie, and it was absolutely fantastic. You know, when I think about the camp that I would want to send my kids to, I just get so excited when I picture them crying and screaming, and learning to become martyrs in the name of Jesus Christ! No literally, this movie was terrifying. There is a time when people say "army of god", and they just mean people who defend of love god. But in this movie, the "army of god" are children aged aged 4-13, crying and practically having mental breakdowns because of their "love" of god. From most of what I know about the Christian faith, it is about loving god, loving others, and forgiving people. These "camp leaders" are condemning people, teaching kids to discriminate against people, and telling them that if "they don't (insert some generic radical Christian belief), they will burn in hell". But you know what, I've actually learned a lot from this movie. I never knew that Harry Potter was basically best friends with Satan, and that if he was in the Old Testament, he would've been put to death. It's good to know, because the next time I show a five year old any HP movies, I will take into consideration that they might learn leadership, friendship skills, or that they might just have a good time. Also, I've learned that God doesn't like quiet churches, in fact, he won't even visit those churches. God likes churches that condemns any other sexuality other than heterosexuality, and churches that really care about the critical situation of America. "One Nation under God". This was a very important part of Jesus Camp. The fact that church and government still remain separate, is a very distressing issue indeed. What really helped me understand the political situation of America was when the camp leader brought out a cardboard cutout of George Bush, and they had a ceremony where she spoke for him, and the kids answered. There is not one right thing in that entire situation. First of all, she spoke behind the cutout, which meant she said whatever she wanted to say to manipulate the kids. Then, she led the kids in a touching prayer, to all of America. The kids then proceeded to shout and plead on their knees with god, asking him to help Bush. This is not like the halfhearted "oh, please help". This is the on the floor, tears gushing from their eyes, red faced screaming and crying, as if they had just seen their dog get run over. Yeah, so this movie really educated me that it's not just Muslims that are radical and extremists. I don't know whether the camp leader saying : Oh yeah, Muslims have been training kids from a young age to kill themselves for God, and we want an army of children just as strong, and just as devoted as them– or, the kid that was talking about his dad's missionaries and how just before he left to a dangerous place, everyone would gather around and yell "martyr, martyr!", was more horrifying. Can I also mention that this kid proceeded to say that he thought it was cool that they yelled that, and that he would not mind laying his life down for the same cause (also, this kid is 13). So yeah.To be fair, this movie does not at all represent Christianity as a whole. The same way that ISIS doesn't represent Islam at all. This movie just focuses on one side of Christianity, and I guess kind of opens your eyes up because people think that Islam is the only religion with people who don't properly represent the religion. I definitely saw a dark side, but I think it's just sad that these kids grow up in these environments. Because if they know nothing else, how can they even begin to question what they're being taught. All I'm saying is that I believe in non violence, and I don't think this was appropriate at all to teach to kids. I'm not trying to offend anyone, you can have your thoughts, and I can have mine. I also think that these kids should have a chance to have their own thoughts, so I highly disagree with this method of education.