[lit-ideas] Re: kid camps & passion -- p.s.
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:06:03 EDT
At this point, after having done considerable personal searching, reading,
studying, the best I can say for myself is that I'm an unaffiliated monotheist
still trying to find the right path to my Maker.
Julie Krueger
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Julie -
I thought you were Jewish. Sending your Jewish daughter to a Christian bible
camp sounds even more problematic to me than watching a passionately
anti-semitic film about the passion of Christ. (And watching it without you by
her
side to add some perspective to what she sees.)
This is not a bible camp with an interfaith component to it, is it? Unless I
overlooked that. Your daughter's not getting a perspective on the bible that
comes from comparing and contrasting the Jewish with the Christian versions.
She's getting a "true believer's" perspective without any countervailing
view to temper what she learns.
If this were in school, I would hope it would be looking at the bible as
literature. In a bible camp, I really don't think the teachers will be looking
at the bible as literature. And you won't be there. If they brought parents
together with their kids in a learning environment, that would be different.
She'll be there alone without the intellectual tools or maturity to raise
challenging questions and dare to openly dissent against what all the other
kids
will blindingly accept as gospel.
I would spend some time with your daughter now examining, analyzing, and
discussing all the accepted wisdom she's ingested by herself.
Stan Spiegel
Portland, Maine
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Subject: [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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