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I watched Jesus Camp on the weekend.

I had no idea. Wow! They are out there, and they are training their children to save you.

Whether you like it or not.

If you've never seen this documentary I highly recommend it. It's the most bizarre combination of radical religion and politics. Or religion and radical conservative politics. Whichever. Sprinkle a huge dose of pig-headedness and a heap of "We're the only ones with the truth and we know what's best for everyone" and you have a situation brewing.

Yep, American Evangelical Christians are plotting to take over. They're going to do it by voting, by praying and by creating a politically active, radical group of kids. The big thing on their agenda-outlaw abortion again. It's pretty chilling to watch a group of little kids being led to pray fervently to have abortion outlawed, and to watch an anti-abortion activist shameless play on an impressionable group of youngsters by passing out dolls of fetuses to them and telling them that a third of their friends aren't here today because people ended "God's plan" for them.

This is one of the workshops depicted in the film, which follows three children to a month long summer camp meant to prepare these kids for their place in God's Army, fighting the culture war that's going in in American today. Another one involved the leader of the camp berating and chastising the children for being phonies and hypocrites until they started to cry and beg God for forgiveness. It was like watching something about a cult operating. First you break them down, and they you tell them how much you love them. Eeeeeeeeee!

Anyhow, it's a very eye-opening and thought provoking film.