User blog comment:Maslab/Spartan Brainwashing/@comment-59290-20091111043846

Actually, Maslab, I have seen that movie. They used what is known as a "charismatic" church for their documentary simply because it is so... how to put it nicely... spiritual. In actuality, such charismatic churches step outside what most "true" evangelicals consider to be the extreme end of the spectrum, with such odd practices as speaking in tongues and being actually inhabited bodily by a spiritual being (bunk, if you ask me). Charismatics like to believe themselves evangelicals, but to most of us mainliners, they aren't. No offense to LOMI, if you are, I am just explaining the views of the majority. Actually, many of the kids who are sent to such summer programs are just as likely to reject what they have grown to accept as "their" faith when they grow older, or at least have serious doubts. The majority of agnostics had roots in what many would consider a "Christian" upbringing. As to Hyper Zergling, religion is only what you make it. If one examines what Jesus says in the Bible, as I should recommend to anyone who would like to conjecture on Christianity (just as one should read the Q'uran first if one were to throw out accusations or claims about Islam), a "true Christian" is supposed to question their beliefs and what their church leaders say is right every day. Is that brainwashing? Teaching people to be skeptical of what is told them doesn't seem that way to me... Maslab, I would modify the point about children rejecting their parent's belief if we were to say happier... I would say question deeply what they have been taught. After all, one who blindly accepts everything that is taught them is a complete and utter fool. Outright rejection could be an outcome, yes. But it certainly isn't a "happier" alternative. Unless you are the world's first atheist missionary! Hehehehe!