Jesus Camp - Page 2

Pangloss62 · 09-11-2006, 01:31 PM

There's this new documentary that's getting a lot of buzz. I watched the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNfL6IVWCE and was immediately scared. Not like The Ring scared, but like "Holy shit! This is really happening" scared. It made me mad, too.

What makes me mad is this notion that it's the obligation of parents to indoctrinate their children into THEIR particular religious worldview rather than let them develop their own perspectives through time. Since this indoctrination takes place very early, the kids must eventually reconcile their religion with the reality around them as they grow up. Some can do this rather well, and seem to retain the humanistic qualities of their parents' religion and leave behind the fanatical and irrational qualities, arriving at a sort of benign compromise. Others carry the banner of their parents' religion and move further and further away from our evil secular society, choosing friends of similar worldview and trying to inject their faith into our political and legal systems of governance. The latter seem to be a growing group, a disturbing voting bloc. This is why you see Democrats pandering to them, making sure they use the word "god" and "faith" in their speeches. Most of these Democrats are the benign compromisers, but they are forced to sound more "fundamental" than they are. And this brings me to a sad but true point:

There could NEVER be an atheist president. Think about it. Condi Rice (Black Woman), Lieberman (Jew) Hillary (Wellesley College lesbian), are at least mentioned, but if anybody publically stated that they were "Godless," as beautiful Ann Coulter calls us, it would be over in terms of holding high office (yes Tommy, I know). But wouldn't being "Godless" be a good quality for a president? One's decisions and actions would be intrinsically free from religious bias. People of all religions (and there are a lot of them) could be sure the President would not play favorites. But it could never happen because "Godless" means "Goodless" for most Christians. That's what really burns me up about the title of Coulter's alleged "book." The presumption is that people who are "godless" must be, ipso facto, "bad" people.

Not only is that wrong, it's insulting (imagine, Ann Coulter insulting people).

09-11-2006, 01:31 PM	#1
Pangloss62 Lecturer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 768	Jesus Camp There's this new documentary that's getting a lot of buzz. I watched the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNfL6IVWCE and was immediately scared. Not like The Ring scared, but like "Holy shit! This is really happening" scared. It made me mad, too. What makes me mad is this notion that it's the obligation of parents to indoctrinate their children into THEIR particular religious worldview rather than let them develop their own perspectives through time. Since this indoctrination takes place very early, the kids must eventually reconcile their religion with the reality around them as they grow up. Some can do this rather well, and seem to retain the humanistic qualities of their parents' religion and leave behind the fanatical and irrational qualities, arriving at a sort of benign compromise. Others carry the banner of their parents' religion and move further and further away from our evil secular society, choosing friends of similar worldview and trying to inject their faith into our political and legal systems of governance. The latter seem to be a growing group, a disturbing voting bloc. This is why you see Democrats pandering to them, making sure they use the word "god" and "faith" in their speeches. Most of these Democrats are the benign compromisers, but they are forced to sound more "fundamental" than they are. And this brings me to a sad but true point: There could NEVER be an atheist president. Think about it. Condi Rice (Black Woman), Lieberman (Jew) Hillary (Wellesley College lesbian), are at least mentioned, but if anybody publically stated that they were "Godless," as beautiful Ann Coulter calls us, it would be over in terms of holding high office (yes Tommy, I know). But wouldn't being "Godless" be a good quality for a president? One's decisions and actions would be intrinsically free from religious bias. People of all religions (and there are a lot of them) could be sure the President would not play favorites. But it could never happen because "Godless" means "Goodless" for most Christians. That's what really burns me up about the title of Coulter's alleged "book." The presumption is that people who are "godless" must be, ipso facto, "bad" people. Not only is that wrong, it's insulting (imagine, Ann Coulter insulting people). __________________ Things are never as good, or bad, as they seem. Last edited by Pangloss62; 09-11-2006 at 01:47 PM.

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