Wheels In The Head Analysis

Radical religion is very prominent in todays world, and in most cases it isn’t a well-liked branch of the religion itself. When talked about in the readings such as “Wheels in the Head” and from our discussions in class, we discuss about private and public schools but such can be flipped for religions. Jesus camp is an example of that and the documentary is exactly on that, a radical religious group. The documentary is focused on a evangelical christian church in the midwest that runs a camp for the families of their following. The camp is meant to show the children and young adults of the church more about their religion and how they should act and believe just as their parents do. Twenty minutes into the documentary and its very clear how …show more content…
Which makes it easier to pass laws and have more followers behind certain political figures. But when religions comes into education it gets trickier. There are the schools that are laissez faire and just incorporate religion into the education and just teach the morals of the religion and to be respectful to others. The Christians the film portrayed had a very different outlook on education and how children should be taught. In the film their is a mother helping her son with science homework where the boy is learning evolution. The mother laughed and told her son to memorize it for the test but to immediately purge it from his mind because it wasn’t real. The same goes for global warming, in their mind if God wants humans and the earth to die slowly then why stop it. It is one thing to disagree with a scientific theory but an entirely different to just dismiss it and those who believe in it saying they are damned. They are so blinded by ignorance they accuse the devil of almost everything that is wrong with the world. They also are a very conservative/republican community, so naturally the camp preaches their political views to these very impressionable minds who will believe anything they are told. There is a point in the film where they make the kids touch a cardboard cut out of the former President Bush and they start