Radical religion has been around since the dawn of man, but through the lethal jaws of social media or advanced film technology, consumers are able to see radical religion in a new light. People often think of ISIS when the term "radical religion" is utilized, but they forget that this branch of evangelicalism occurs right in our own back yard.
It terrifies me to see people act, think, and behave like this. No, I am not referring to their religious beliefs. I am referring to their obnoxiously headstrong attitudes and arrogant, ignorant ways of life. When brain-dead adults, who have no higher education than their parents home-schooled degree, rattle off ill-rational reasoning for easily explained scientific facts, I can't help but to become furious. I couldn't imagine a world in which people like this, so firmly anchored in their erroneous beliefs, exist and actual function within a society.
However, these individuals say the same thing against the opposite side. Are we the ones who are actually wrong. I believe in climate change, and in Darwin's theory of evolution, but could barely rattle off more than a few commonly know facts. This is what truly terrifies me. My initial knee-jerk reaction is to indignantly laugh at these buffoons, but I'm just the same way.
Ok, maybe my (our) reasoning has a much stronger foundation than those featured in the documentary, but the following is large enough to strongly waver our country's major political decisions in their favor.
So whether or not you believe these people are wrong or right, they have made me think about what "right" really is.
2 comments:
I had a similar thought while watching this film--how can I judge these people who are so rooted in their own beliefs with seemingly no scientific evidence if I can't even necessarily support my own beliefs with evidence? This documentary really made me question at what point in my life I developed my personal beliefs and why. Is my sense of reality any more valid than theirs?
Additionally, I grew up attending summer bible camps that initially had an uncanny resemblance to the one pictured in the documentary. I was startled when the camp took a darker turn and Becky started claiming that Harry Potter the "Warlock" was a sinful character and the children started weeping and convulsing. It's almost scary that a belief system can have such a powerful physical effect on someone, and equally as terrifying that there exists so many people who are simply closed off to considering the beliefs of others should they differ from their own.
This film was VERY eye-opening to me. I had a two friends last year who were very religious and I never really understood why these went to these camps or what these camps were yet they tried very hard to convince me that they were so fun and you needed them in your life and basically just had so much love for Jesus that was something I could never really understand because I am not a religious person so that was confusing to me. Yet after we watched the video I realized what really was going on and it gave me a glimpse into their mind set whether or not there jesus camp was this extreme they still went to them none the less and had this type of stuff going through their head and that is concerning in more ways then just one. And I think more then anything that is the real concern here is that so often we can get tricked into believe whats right and wrong based on one side and at the end of the day that isn't a good thing because it affects more then just them it affects our country because more and more people are being brought up in this "cult" kind of and so it affects a lot. I mean look at our current president.
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