I watched The Burning Hell and Jesus Camp. One thing that stood out to me was all this talk about why hell is bad, you shouldn't sin, and what will happen in hell if you go there.
Neither spoke about how to be a good person and what you should be doing. Aside from the kids in Jesus Camp being told to elect more judges to ban abortion.
It would drive you mad to be constantly told what not to do, with no direction on hoe to be a good person
Neither spoke about how to be a good person and what you should be doing.
The church in Jesus Camp is a Pentecostal or something similar to Pentecostal. Pentecostal is the church that does the speaking in tongues. Some Pentecostal churches also drink poison and handle snakes. They think that god makes them immune to poison or something.
The Burning Hell was made by Reverend Estus Pirkle. Estus Pirkle is very much political and is most famously known for directing anti-communism propaganda movies. You should watch his other movie 'If footmen tire you, what will horses do?' The plot of the movie is basically a fantasy where Fidel Castro takes over the US and starts killing all the Christians. It's one of my favorite movies just because of how absurd it is.
Southern Baptist Church is very much political and they do tell the congregation what to do. Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has 13 million members in the US today. It is the largest Protestant organization in the US. Southern Baptist Convention formed in 1845 for the purpose of supporting slavery. Southern Baptist Churches are known for opposing the 1960s civil rights movement. Southern Baptist Convention didn't remove support for slavery from their charter until 1995.
content warning list for the movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336618/parentalguide/
https://archive.org/details/if-footmen-tire-you-what-will-horses-do-1
And the more political preachers rail against the convention being taken over by “liberalism”, vaguely, without ever saying exactly what they mean. Mine did.
I've heard of If Footmen Tire You from BYNWR. I didn't realise it was by him as well. I know it's chuddy but I'll have to check it out
It’s indicative of their whole worldview. Children exist to reinforce the behavior and beliefs of the parent. Raising a qualified successor generation is secondary, if they care at all.
And why should they? Jesus is set to come back any day, once they figure out how to trigger the Rapture with some cows and a hill.
Another example of this that comes to mind for me is hearing how schools will put a totalled car on the front lawn before prom to try discourage kids from drink driving.
If you're worried about kids drinking and driving then maybe offer taxi and bus services? It gives this sense that the problems are systemic but the solutions are individual. The kids know not to drink drive but are given no alternatives if they don't have the means to arrange something ahead of time.
Neither spoke about how to be a good person and what you should be doing.
This is a parenting principle I’ve heard from the Conscious Discipline crowd: tell your kid what to do rather than what not to do. They don’t have the presence to immediately know a better alternative to what they’re doing, and all they can think about is what they’re told not to do. So most likely they will continue doing that.
Mr Chazz talks about this a couple minutes into this parenting analysis: https://tankie.tube/w/sKdHBXjZ8cTqbxsJC8cJxe
That's how i try to frame things with my kids whenever I can. I ket them know what i want them to do rather than just telling them to stop what they're doing
