‪Harry Potter Must Die! 'Jesus Camp' Directors Discuss documentary

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‪Harry Potter Must Die! ‘Jesus Camp’ Directors Discuss documentary

Scary indoctrination

By Randall Gross

Wingnuts • August 2011 • Views: 2,108

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50 Documentaries to See Before You Die,” Morgan Spurlock and guest commentators discuss “Jesus Camp” (2006), the doc that made No. 31 on our list. Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, the Oscar-nominated documentary delves into the unusual goings on at a Pentecostal children’s summer camp in North Dakota. Their “trippy” journey include uncompromising pastor Becky Fisher, who claims that according to the Bible, Harry Potter should be put to death.

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calochortus Sun, Aug 7, 2011 11:53:58am

Apparently some of the folks from the film are on Facebook. This blog has a bit of follow-up and links

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, Aug 7, 2011 1:20:50pm

Also sentenced to death were muppets, smurfs, the last unicorn, and huckleberry hound

theheat Sun, Aug 7, 2011 1:36:17pm

The American Taliban has come out from below ground to thrive in today’s political climate. That includes its shirttail relatives, like the Jesus Camp peeps.

Dark_Falcon Sun, Aug 7, 2011 3:10:55pm

They should cheer J.K. Rowling, not curse her. Her books are about a boy becoming a proper man, about courage, and the proper way to approach life and death. They should put aside concerns of “wizardry” and see the truth behind the fiction.

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sun, Aug 7, 2011 3:12:09pm

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

They should cheer J.K. Rowling, not curse her. Her books are about a boy becoming a proper man, about courage, and the proper way to approach life and death. They should put aside concerns of “wizardry” and see the truth behind the fiction.

HP is awash in Christian symbolism. Not quite like Narnia, but very much so.

jvic Sun, Aug 7, 2011 6:25:08pm

(The Catholic Church does not ordain women.) Not too many years ago fundamentalist Protestants were saying that women were ineligible to be ministers; afaik many or most still do. So my eyebrows rose at reading ‘uncompromising pastor Becky Fisher’.

I gather that some people who insist on Biblical truth have themselves moved beyond the Bible because they sense God talking directly to them.

Note to these new apostles: if somebody is talking directly to you, it isn’t necessarily God.

HappyWarrior Sun, Aug 7, 2011 8:06:09pm

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

They should cheer J.K. Rowling, not curse her. Her books are about a boy becoming a proper man, about courage, and the proper way to approach life and death. They should put aside concerns of “wizardry” and see the truth behind the fiction.

Not to mention they’ve gotten millions of readers. The Harry Potter series isn’t my cup of tea but Rowling has gotten a large amount of people in to reading and I will always respect those books for that.

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