Last night, some of my *closest* friends and I watched Devil's Playground, a documentary about some Amish kids during their so-called "Rumspringa" period. I also caught the tail end of Jesus Camp, a documentary about evangelicals and the so-called "Army of God" that they raise (it's a unique army because its soldiers are creepy ten-year-olds).
Devil's Playground was kinda boring. I should probably explain "Rumspringa": apparently, when Amish kids turn sixteen, their parents set them loose in the "english" (no, they do not capitalize it) world, and when and if the kids want to, they can voluntarily join the Amish church. Inevitably, the kids pick up smoking, binge drinking, methamphetamine, and Nintendo. They also start having sex with each other (though it's probably pretty amateurish because the Amish are not allowed to watch pornography while they grow up).
The particular Amish kids in the movie, like Faron, live (in their trailers or barns) in a self-perpetuating miserable cycle of drunkenness and hangover. This is one reason why the film is boring; the kids don't really do anything. Nobody parties like the Amish! one of them declares. LOL.
Another reason why Devil's Playground is boring: the Amish kids are stupid and inexperienced. They have nothing to say, except stuff like "I could be dead at any minute. Gotta live each moment like it's my last." Wow. Such a profound realization/credo. I've never heard any sixteen-year-old say anything like that. The kids are about as philosophically insightful as professional athletes. Word of advice to directors: don't make documentaries centering around the thoughts of teenagers, because they're stupid and boring.
Jesus Camp was a better film, from what I could tell from the last twenty minutes. The filmmakers apparently asked the evangelical kids and their parents questions that would yield the scariest, creepiest answers. Apparently, the secular scientists want us to believe that we came from GOO! Interesting. Secular kids are also taught (wrongly so) that humans are animals, like the common cat or wild mushroom. One of the film's stars was a grossly overweight middle-aged woman who criticized all the fat and lazy Christians out there (***Hypocrite Warning***).
I'll be in my office, thumping my favorite Bible, if anyone needs me.
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Doug Wilson created a stupid song trying to communicate how "ridiculous" and "unbelievable" evolution is. Go to the "songs" section on the left of his blogsite http://www.dougwils.com. He gets an A for effort. Doug Wilson is a special old man.
I saw "Jesus Camp" last winter. When a certain religious somebody who lives in my house asked me what I thought of it, I responded that I thought it was the "comedy of the year!" She didn't take my opinion too well.
The children are really creepy in the movie but raising them in this fashion is the ONLY way the homosexuals can be stopped.
"Thumping my favorite Bible" sounds like a euphemism for ....uhhhhh....."throwing the hose" if you will.
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