Is violent rhetoric effective? Furthermore, are grotesque images?
When it comes to religious rhetoric, it seems like the most used language of the religious right is violent or “war-like”.
For anyone who’s seen Jesus Camp, the rabble rousing of Becky Fisher, the pastor of the North Dakota camp, took religion to a whole new level for viewers who had otherwise not been exposed to it.
The most powerful scene depicted twenty+ children holding plastic fetuses depicting various forms of the pregnancy cycle are screaming “No more, God! No more!”. The tears running down their face are horrifying, because in another scene of the movie Fisher explains how children are being molded by the leaders of the camp to be the revolutionary heroes of Christianity.
So is this what the religious right is planning? Are they planning to overthrow laws enacted by the government or, do I dare say, overthrow democracy entirely?
Since the air of the movie, the North Dakota Christian camp has shut down. Fisher was afraid of violence being enacted on the children.
Ironic.
