Church decides to scare the shit out of kids...

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17. When I was a teen, we had a staged "Communist Raid" at summer camp

right out of the movie "Red Dawn".

It was Summer Baptist Bible Camp, about 1982, and we were pulled out of our beds in the middle of the night by camp councilors and rushed into the forest. We were told the Communists had invaded and that they were sending special forces against the Christians, especially Christian youth.

The "Communists" had jeeps with searchlights and we had to hide face down in the pine needles.

Later, after the "Communists" moved on in their search, our camp leader got out a shovel and dug up a Bible that had been buried under a tree marked with a cross.

After they felt the lesson had "sunk in", we were debriefed and told that this could actually happen, that this was how life really was in some countries. Then we pledged allegiance to the flag, and sang the Star Spangled Banner.

Afterwards, we were told NEVER to tell anyone how many guns or how many Bibles we had in our house, because then the Communists would know how many to search for. Seriously.