Monday, September 18, 2006

Jesus Camp and the Second American Revolution

There is a story on abc about young children being indoctrinated in 'Jesus Camp.'
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/play...ndex? id=2456227
Very young children are being taught to worship George Bush, and are being trained to die for some sort of 'Christian Army.' It is very sick, and very wrong, and reminds me of a story I read about Iran recently.

During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), sawthes of young children had a fundamentalist brand of Islam taught to them, I suppose simmilar to this fundamentalist brand of Christainity, and the children were then told to walk across minefields laid down by the Iraqis, to clear the way for Iranian troops.

Surely there has got to be a lawyer, somewhere, who could argue a decent case against this in court? Is there no legislator who can propose a law to stop very young, very vulnerable kids being taught extreme political views? But I guess killing people for Christ isnt considered extreme anymore.

As a first year American Studies student at University, it seems to me, that the people who forged the ideal of America, were a small band of radicals for their time, fighting against the injustices and attacks on liberty of an Imperialist superpower, who forged a concept of Democracy without the intolerances of religion or the feroucious hatred of a moral police anywhere to be seen.

Now to have a President whoes colonial ambitions strech the world over, who brings extreme religion to the front and centre of eveything he does, and who is worshiped by cults, is surley not quite in line with what the framers had in mind?

The one question which the public, nor the media, asks potential leaders, and one which should be the most important in regards to the continutation of the American Experiment:
"What would the Founding Fathers think of your policies?"
If there is a politician out there who can merley repeat the words and ideas of Washington or Adams or Jefferson or even Lincoln, then surley that will be the begining of the Second American Revolution.