Kids At Jesus Camp

[Edwina's Secretary]

My point is not that we can never believe what anyone says, because everyone has a point of view.

My point is that, before forming a strong opinion, one should to get to the facts of the matter, which probably means gathering information from different sources. Yes, that's "work," but it is the responsibility of thinking human beings.

My mother was a journalist who belived that opinion belonged on the Op Ed pages, and nowhere else in a newspaper. A true journalist should never taint the story with their own opinions, should cover, for example, candidates from both parties without you - the reader, being able to tell whether the reporter writing it was a Republican, Democrat, or Independent. She was sad to see the huge increase of "opinion" creeping into news stories, and that was back in the 1980s and 1990s!

A documentary film maker is not what I would call a journalist!

The guy who made the documentary on the evils of fast food (Supersize Me, I think???) had an agenda as well... but I don't believe I need to study the publications of the trans fatty trade group in order to be a thinking human being about the issue...or before forming a strong opinion on the subject!

And why do you assume creep in the report about the documentary?

[Catty1]

[Luvin Labs]

Camps like that are exactly why I will be teaching my children in my own home about religion, and not some teacher or church or person...

just reading parts of that are wiggin me out.

[cyber-sibes]

At least the kids at this camp are NOT being taught to use rifles, blow themselves up, or chop people's heads off. I was raised Catholic and remember being told that if we die for God that we are martyrs and go straight to heaven. This really appealed to me as a 9 year old, but did I have any idea what the priest really meant? NOT! At least they didn't strap bombs on us and send us on suicide missions to blow up atheists.
Extremism is never good, it is a warped version of passion. If people truly wanted to follow in the paths of God-Jesus-Buddha-Mohammed, there would be no violence against anyone.

[Karen]

A documentary film maker is not what I would call a journalist!

I thought documentarians were supposed to be, but the industry has obviously changed dramatically.

The guy who made the documentary on the evils of fast food (Supersize Me, I think???) had an agenda as well... but I don't believe I need to study the publications of the trans fatty trade group in order to be a thinking human being about the issue...or before forming a strong opinion on the subject!!

Of course you don't, because you are a thinking person and have your own experiences with food and maybe even the fast food industry that you will naturally take into account as well.

And why do you assume creep in the report about the documentary?

I don't understand your question. Rephrase?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Of course you don't, because you are a thinking person and have your own experiences with food and maybe even the fast food industry that you will naturally take into account as well.

Same goes for fundamentalist.....