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'''''Jesus Camp''''' is a documentary movie about a Christian summer camp called "Kids On Fire".
'''''Jesus Camp''''' is a documentary movie about a Christian summer camp called "Kids On Fire".


{{quote-source|Was it child abuse? Yes and no. I think they had the best of intentions, but I see it as sick people trying to treat sick people. It’s their coping mechanism for figuring out why we’re alive. I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything, though, because it allowed me at such a young age to question my existence.[...] They showed us what it meant to really feel deep emotions for life, for God. Some people would say that it was all fake, but when I look back on it, our belief in it had made it real. It really taught me the power of belief.|Andrew Sommerkamp, child participant speaking 10 years after the film<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/06/jesus-camp-christian-documentary-kids-10-years-later The kids of Jesus Camp, 10 years later: 'Was it child abuse? Yes and no'], The Guardian, 6 July 2016</ref>}}
{{quote-source|Was it child abuse? Yes and no. I think they had the best of intentions, but I see it as sick people trying to treat sick people. It’s their coping mechanism for figuring out why we’re alive. I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything, though, because it allowed me at such a young age to question my existence.[...] They showed us what it meant to really feel deep emotions for life, for God. Some people would say that it was all fake, but when I look back on it, our belief in it had made it real. It really taught me the power of belief.|Andrew Sommerkamp<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/06/jesus-camp-christian-documentary-kids-10-years-later The kids of Jesus Camp, 10 years later: 'Was it child abuse? Yes and no'], The Guardian, 6 July 2016</ref>}}


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