Jesus Camp

You want to see a scary movie? Watch Jesus Camp, a documentary by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. It looks at fundamentalist Christianity by focusing on 3 kids, and it follows them to a camp in North Dakota where they pray, worship, and are indoctrinated.

It was one of the scariest movies I've watched in a long time. My husband and I were both switching between hiding beneath our blankets, or staring with mouths gaping. We even paused it multiple times to discuss, something we rarely do in the middle of a movie. Maybe it's because we've both lived it. It's a lot scarier being on the outside looking in. I could relate to these kids and the dogma that surrounded them. Except imagine all the little girls with freakishly long hair and skirts down to their ankles. That would be me.

Part of me wants to show the film to my parents. There is a fear, though, and a possibility, that they would not see anything wrong with it, and then would demand a conversation to discuss why i do. A conversation I am not yet ready to begin.