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Evo
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Adeimantus said:It has been noted that the movie Jesus Camp is rather propagandistic in its approach, so I thought I'd post this link for some balance. Here is the Reverend Becky Fischer being interviewed in her own element, where no one has used sneaky editing to make her look bad.
There are two parts, separated by an ad. There's also an ad for the children's ministry at the end. It's best if you watch it all the way through.
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No, it's the same thing.Adeimantus said:Bummer. Can I just put the address in a post as text? That way it isn't technically a link, and people can just copy and paste?
Evo said:No, it's the same thing.
Do you think that could work at the industrial tribunal ?Evo said:And they all work in my office. I've never worked in an office with so many people praying, laying on hands
Moonbear said:Just from what people are posting here, it sounds highly biased, so I don't understand the claims that it is unbiased.
CaptainQuasar said:I think that movie is pretty obviously intentionally cut so that it never shows the people in it doing or saying anything normal and so that you don't see the kids at the camp doing any of the things that might happen at a secular summer camp. It appears to me designed to exclusively portray, as the entirety of their identity, as many non-mainstream religious beliefs as possible. And I think it's cut and laid out in an attempt to ensure that unless the viewer has similar beliefs he or she doesn't develop any empathy or find any common ground with the people depicted.
CaptainQuasar said:Yeah, people are weird in all sorts of different ways. Some things about the kinds of beliefs these people hold are bad IMO but I don't think that trying to maximize distrust and intolerance serves any purpose - we ought to be trying to understand why they think the things they do, not dismiss it as a simple matter of incomprehensible brainwashed craziness. What this movie tries to do seems like the same attitude as "Muslims just hate freedom and America - it's in their religion, it's part of their culture!"⚛
LightbulbSun said:Ignorance can be cured, willful ignorance can't.