Unacceptable.

If you haven't seen this clip yet, here you go. "Jesus Camp" is a documentary that is critical of the camp featured in the documentary.

For a clue into my own religious background, there is really no better example. I was fortunate enough never to go to a camp of this magnitude of horror, but every practice (and more) you see in this video was a guaranteed mass occurrence at every church service I attended until I was 16. I had given up on it almost completely by 14, but until I was too large to be physically dragged or beaten until I went, I had to endure it.



Umm, yeah. As far as I'm concerned, this is child abuse. Parents are (allegedly) in charge of teaching their children to deal/cope with reality. These parents, however, think it's more important to emotionally manipulate and over-stimulate their children in order to feed them lies about their own humanity. How far out of touch with themselves will some of these children be in their teens? When one of the little girls has a pregnancy she is in no way ready to carry to term or raise, will she have the wherewithal to see that abortion is her best option, or will she even consider it since she prophesied as a child that abortion in America would be "NO MORE"? At least one of the kids on this tape or at this camp is a future homosexual, because we come from every walk of life. Will he be a danger to himself or others because he is in so much conflict that he boils with rage whenever he experiences something as natural as his own lust? At the very least, he will break a few hearts, because when you pray, the gay does not go away.

This saddens me because none of this is possible without completely denigrating and vilifying the very humanity of these children. Without shame, fear and guilt you cannot convince a confident, pleasure seeking, self-affirming being to believe these outrageous things. This saddens me because I love human beings. You will never hear me express the loathsome, thoughtless, and downright lazy sentiment "people are stupid". To do so would be as abominable as what you see in the above embed.

For anyone who feels that a term as indefinite as "stupidity" is sufficient to explain any human dilemma....
For anyone who has ever concluded that socialism doesn't work out because people aren't as good as the ideas of one man...
For anyone who has accepted that a woman's act brought about man's fall from grace...
For anyone who treats sex as a necessary evil...
For anyone who has ever lied to or assaulted a child because you didn't want to have to outsmart it ,and didn't think it could respond to clarity and consistency of direction...
For anyone who thinks that the earth would be better off without human activity because we disturb some kind of "balance"...
For anyone who believes that certain cultures just don't need "our kind of freedom", because protecting their culture is somehow more important than preserving the human beings suffocating within it ...
For anyone who tolerates the highly offensive idea of deity itself, that there is something higher than humanity which can enjoy the title without even fighting for it...

To condemn or otherwise degrade humanity or human nature is the worst evil anyone can commit, as it is no different than the vicious lie of orginal sin, which happens to be what makes everything in that disgusting video possible.