Fundamentalism In Jesus Camp

Everyone has a different definition of fundamentalism, but generally fundamentalism has a religious connotation that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. To start off the lecture, we were asked “what is the first thing you think of when you hear the world fundamentalist?”. In my head, I thought most people are probably thinking of a Muslim figure. Right then, a girl mentioned Osama Bin Laden, and another gentle man named a Christian man whose name I unfortunately do not remember. This clarified that the two main religions mostly associated with fundamentalism are Islam and Christianity, because in history those are the religions that take their beliefs to an extreme. However, I believe it is important to broaden …show more content…
She then goes on to say that Muslims train their children to fast during Ramadan from the age of 5 and how Muslims train children to do violent things for the sake of Islam, but then she gets the children to raise to their feet to tell Jesus that they are ready to be trained, and they are ready to do and say whatever in Jesus’s name and then has them chanting and behaving as if they are under mind control. It is clear to me that the woman in this film is a fundamentalist as she clearly lives by the statement “God said it, I believe it, that settles it”. She is training young children to have the same stubborn and ignorant mind set of hers. I strongly feel that it is inappropriate to brain wash children at a young age to be fundamentalists, regardless of whether or not you believe your intentions are good, because this results in children not having a mind of their own and have negative feelings towards members of other religions, which will then result in ignorance and hatred between different members of