The Stumbling Mystic blogs about the documentary Jesus Camp, a movie on a camp that indoctrinates children into a hard-ling arch conservative Christian message:
Authentic spiritual experiences erase the “us versus them” mentality. They blur the boundaries between self and other. Emotional and vitalistic experiences like the ones portrayed in Jesus Camp by their very nature reinforce the shadow rather than transmuting it and therefore deepen the fault lines within humanity. Some of the children in the movie report feeling “disgusting” inside when they meet a non-Christian. What a terrible tragedy that such nonsense is being peddled in the name of Jesus of Nazareth!
Blog first viewed at BlogBharti.
Yes, because there’s nothing in the New Testament about how bad things are going to be for that nasty outgroup, and how sweet the ingroup is going to have it, just you watch.
Okay, I certainly prefer to be around people who have spiritual experiences like those of Stumbling Mystic rather than people who have spiritual experiences like the kids in Jesus Camp. But how do you know that one is authentic, the other inauthentic? What does that mean anyway? Can you operationally define the difference between an “authentic” spiritual experience versus an “inauthentic” one? How do you gather emperical evidence to prove one is authentic and the other not?
Yeah, we can do without this kind of sectarianism. I’ve seen people argue that liberalism prevents (or reveals a lack of) true enlightenment. Of course I pointed out that in that case unenlightened people probably benefit society more. Minorities in particular — racial or religious — would actually want to limit enlightenment. This may explain why those evil Illuminati want to keep it all to themselves.
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