[lit-ideas] kid camps & passion

Okay.  The atheists can skip the first part.  The second part I  would love a 
reaction to from anyone with any thoughts, insights, etc.
 
My daughter (13, going into 8th grade in the fall), begged me to go to a  
Protestant church camp because some of her friends were going, it would add 
some  
fun to her summer, and she "needed a week to study God."  I pictured an  
innocuous place where they would swim in whatever water was their, do  
"girl-talk" 
after lights out, and have some Bible study.  It's in Excelsior  Springs, 
just the side of Kansas (Marlena, I should have checked with you  aforehand and 
you might have given me a head's up).  In any event, I sprung  the $100 for the 
week of fellowship and fun.  To my horror, she called me  on Tues. eve 
telling me they were showing The Passion of Christ for the group  and was it ok 
with 
me for her to see it.  I still don't know if parental  permission was 
required or if she was just checking in because she has heard me  talk about 
it.  I 
took a deep breath, told her I thought she would find it  incredibly 
disturbing, that I had not seen it because of the amount of non-stop  gore and 
the 
Biblical inaccuracies, and that I thought she would not be happy  with the 
experience.  I also told her she had my permission to make her own  choice 
about it.  
(The fastest way to make sure a teen does something is to  forbid it -- if 
when she comes home today I tell her I want all her dirty  clothes on the 
floor, 
leftover food wherever she was eating it last in her room,  and that trash is 
to be thrown anywhere it's convenient, her room would be  spotless in 30 
minutes.  Hmmm.....that's an idea.)
 
The other day a Mom I know from another non-Xian group and I were talking  
and she said there was a "PG13" version of the movie "The Passion" out  there.
 
Now I ask you.  How do you make 2 1/2 (or is it 3?) hours of  unmitigated 
non-stop gore and torture, culminating in an excruciating death,  softer, less 
offensive?  They digitally removed the blood throughout?   They removed any 
obscenities which were shouted in Aramaic?  The guy  doesn't really die at the 
end?
 
Please -- if anyone knows anything about this, fill me  in.    I thought I 
had a pretty good imagination, but this is  beyond me.
 
Off to get kid food -- you know, massive pizzas, taco chips, string cheese,  
ice cream.....
 
Julie Krueger
 
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