Jesus Camp
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- chz
http://www.apple.com/trailers/ma…
Discuss...
- Balance0
Looks like we're doing something right.
sorry chz. Good try but you're still Canadian. hahaha
- chz0
"sorry chz. Good try but you're still Canadian. hahaha
Balance
(Sep 2 06, 17:08)"Thanks for the reminder, and what does this have to do with what I posted?
- Balance0
I would much rather see christians than muslim children in training camps with guns.
- khilled0
wow my very own camp!?
- pavlovs_dog0
robots. ...it's all about robots.
- arthur0
wtf Balance, you broken record. Talk about an agenda.
You never answered my question from your other thread.
Are you a designer?
Why are you here?
- pepsi0
I think Jesus Camp is a great positive influence compared to the crap out there that the youth's are exposed to.
- pavlovs_dog0
" i pledge allegiance to the christian flag"
"we['re bieng trained to be gods army"
oh me, oh my...
80,000,000 million evangelical christians rooting for the death (and eternal damnation) of 7 billion inhabitants of earth.
I guess this is another religion of peace?
Props on posting the trailer tho... Looks well done and i'll check it on dvd.
- pavlovs_dog0
Another well done doc on the same subject...
- ender790
looks like it comes out where i live in a couple of weeks. i'll have to check it out.
- pavlovs_dog0
RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.
According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.
The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.
It compares the social peformance of relatively secular countries, such as Britain, with the US, where the majority believes in a creator rather than the theory of evolution. Many conservative evangelicals in the US consider Darwinism to be a social evil, believing that it inspires atheism and amorality.
Many liberal Christians and believers of other faiths hold that religious belief is socially beneficial, believing that it helps to lower rates of violent crime, murder, suicide, sexual promiscuity and abortion. The benefits of religious belief to a society have been described as its “spiritual capital”. But the study claims that the devotion of many in the US may actually contribute to its ills.
The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, reports: “Many Americans agree that their churchgoing nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that stands as an impressive example for an increasingly sceptical world.
“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.
“The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so.”
Gregory Paul, the author of the study and a social scientist, used data from the International Social Survey Programme, Gallup and other research bodies to reach his conclusions.
He compared social indicators such as murder rates, abortion, suicide and teenage pregnancy.
The study concluded that the US was the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates were still high, and that the least devout nations were the least dysfunctional. Mr Paul said that rates of gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US were up to 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. The US also suffered from “ uniquely high” adolescent and adult syphilis infection rates, and adolescent abortion rates, the study suggested.
Mr Paul said: “The study shows that England, despite the social ills it has, is actually performing a good deal better than the USA in most indicators, even though it is now a much less religious nation than America.”
He said that the disparity was even greater when the US was compared with other countries, including France, Japan and the Scandinavian countries. These nations had been the most successful in reducing murder rates, early mortality, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion, he added.
Mr Paul delayed releasing the study until now because of Hurricane Katrina. He said that the evidence accumulated by a number of different studies suggested that religion might actually contribute to social ills. “I suspect that Europeans are increasingly repelled by the poor societal performance of the Christian states,” he added.
He said that most Western nations would become more religious only if the theory of evolution could be overturned and the existence of God scientifically proven. Likewise, the theory of evolution would not enjoy majority support in the US unless there was a marked decline in religious belief, Mr Paul said.
“The non-religious, proevolution democracies contradict the dictum that a society cannot enjoy good conditions unless most citizens ardently believe in a moral creator.
“The widely held fear that a Godless citizenry must experience societal disaster is therefore refuted.”
- jfletcher0
this is sick, and makes me ashamed.
Let me clarify I have no problem with people who want to worship jesus or the christian faith.
What is sick is saying there is only one way and not being tolerant of other ways. The mentality of "if you're not with us, you're against us". This is what breeds wars, ignorance and hate (Although not the only thing). My god is the only one, my way is the only way.
- jfletcher0
Even with my negative response, I'll still see it. It looks like a good documentary.
- Teeuwen0
humanity & human understanding / love & tolerance are my highest values and beliefs.
simple as that.