9. Jesus Camp
Jesus Camp follows the lives of several Christian children, and the one ‘spiritual leader’ who aims to guide them. The guiding that Becky Fischer aims to do, however, is more about training these children to fight just as hard for their faith as the Muslim extremists do. Running a summer camp called ‘Kids On Fire’ (thankfully no actual immolation occurs), Fischer emotionally abuses young, impressionable minds. Causing a swath of controversy on both the secular side, as well as the left-leaning Christian side, Jesus Camp left audiences with a sense of terror… that same sense of terror that struck the hearts and minds of Americans on that fateful day in September 2001. The clear abuses shown in the film led to Fischer being asked not to come back to the rented facility in Devil’s Lake (not kidding). Vandalism began on the camp site, after the film debuted, and Fischer had this to say: “Christians go after me because of doctrinal issues, whereas the world is going after me because they think I’m another Adolf Hitler… They’re accusing me of raising a Christian Jihad.” A Christian Jihad that, in the film, she’s more than ready to accept responsibility for (even while making children pray over a cardboard cut out of George W. Bush).
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