Crying Kids Pray Over George Bush At Jesus Camp - Film Documents Childrens' Summer At 'Jesus Camp'

WFSB.com, Hartford ^ | September 26, 2006 | Unattributed

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have you seen this film? i did and i thought it was pretty fair. i have not seen the trailer, but i'm sure that was put together by the marketing team for the film company that is distributing it, and might be more sensationalistic than the actual film. i grew up in a small town in the south and was raised in an environment similar to what was captured in the film. i thought the filmmakers did a good job of presenting the material without presenting a particular, personal viewpoint. i saw this at a film festival, and the filmmakers were given every opportunity during the "q and a" that followed the screening, to rail on the subject and subject matter, or give some titillating details to make the material seem nefarious--they never did...I they just wanted to present the material, because i think that it was not something that they were familiar with from their upbringings (catholic and jewish, raised in maryland)...if they had been raised in the south, around more assemblies of god and other pentecostal churches, then they might not have found the material as interesting (not that it is not, but the documentarians might not have found it to be fascinating as "unknown" and "curious"--just as i would find a documentary about judaism or catholicism to be fascinating). i would urge you to see this film. the "devil's lake" location of the film is ironically, where the camp is located, and was not chosen by the filmmakers. after i saw this film, i researched all i could about the subject, becky, because i found her so interesting.

[Proud2BAmerican]

I haven't seen the movie; but the scene you described...WEre they doing this as an illustration of using the Word of God as your sword?

[Saundra Duffy]

I was unaware of this video but watched it recently (got it from Netflix). Actually, the most shocking thing about it is that the young boy, Levi, who preaches at the camp, went to Ted Haggard’s church and shook hands with the pastor and had a conversation. After this film was made, this self same pastor was disgraced in a huge scandal over homosexuality and illicit drugs.

I am sitting here today wondering if anyone ever told that sweet kid, Levi, about it. The kids in this film are sheltered from the world so much so that one little girl who wanted to experience real rain dropping on her head was made to go back into the house by her mother and the little girl only got to experience “10 drops of rain” - free falling rain.

These kids are homeschooled and completely immersed in pentecostal type religious experiences.

The worst thing is that the kid Levi, the young preacher, was standing there having a conversation with this preacher who was later exposed as a hypocrite and fraud. The preacher in question preached against homosexuality and come to find out, that was the very sin that brought him down.

This is sad and I don’t know what to make of it except that the adults let that kid, Levi, down.