Reply #4: Suggestion for the Jesus Camp ads: I am truly tired of these

[Peace Patriot]

brainwashed little girls' worshipful faces on my computer screen. I understand it's for a good cause and all, but it's having the opposite effect on me. I don't want to see the film, and I think that excessive focus on this minority--rightwing 'christians'--assists the war profiteering corporate news monopolies in their purpose of convincing the progressive majority in this country that it is the minority. I'm not against SOME focus. I think the brainwashng of children, and creation of little "soldiers for Christ," should be exposed. I'm talking about EXCESSIVE focus, which could be giving this religious propaganda an aura of power way out of proportion to the numbers of people who fall for it. I know something about this. I was educated in Catholic schools and got the whole hit of the "army of Christ" thing. But I have considerable respect for the human mind and its ability to see through propaganda and seek its own freedom.

So....what I want to see is the faces of INTELLIGENT, THINKING children--children reading an astronomy book, or looking into a telescope or microscope, or a studying a biology book on evolution, or on the internet researching the history of war and its relationship to religion--with a text along these lines: "Do we want intelligent children or brainwashed children? The Jesus Camp knows what it wants..."

POSITIVE IMAGES to remind us WHAT IS DESIRABLE, what we want for children, how they SHOULD BE educated, and how they can educate themselves--to promote this film that is about a negative phenomenon--something we need to know about, but not something that makes little Jesus "stars" out of the victims of this abuse.

Re-design and re-write the ad! PLEASE!

These robotic little Jesus freak faces are FREAKING me, and I think they may be having an undesired subliminal impact. It's like having an ad for a Stephen King horror movie shoved at you all the time. Make the message more solution-oriented. Have it say: Yeah, this is a problem, and here's how we fight it. And show what children SHOULD BE doing, in contrast to someone filling their minds with rapture/power psychosis.