"Kidnapped For Christ"

inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
edited February 2012 in A Moving Train
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/soogeeky/kidnap ... hrist-1igm

"Kidnapped For Christ" Trailer Is Maddening

This documentary tells the story of a group of American evangelicals who sent their gay children to a “therapeutic Christian boarding school” camp in the Dominican Republic, where they were severely disciplined so they could be “transform[ed] into healthy Christian adults". Release date is unknown.
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  • mikepegg44mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    inmytree wrote:
    :cry:

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/soogeeky/kidnap ... hrist-1igm

    "Kidnapped For Christ" Trailer Is Maddening

    This documentary tells the story of a group of American evangelicals who sent their gay children to a “therapeutic Christian boarding school” camp in the Dominican Republic, where they were severely disciplined so they could be “transform[ed] into healthy Christian adults". Release date is unknown.


    horribly sad...
    The part where they say they put pain on the students to show them how much pain they are causing others is disgusting. Those people, their parents and family, put the pain on themselves because of their own intolerance...fucking assholes.
    that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
    It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
    - Joe Rogan
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    someday parents will see what they did to their children
    this is all parents

    the guilt we carry is immense

    to be forgiven sometimes impossible
  • Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
    SOME Muslim parents have stoned their daughters to death... when compared to the entire muslim population a very very small percentage have, and the only reason you have heard about that is that it is so abhorrant that it is reported on the internet.

    opposing anything gay is a pretty common theme amongst the christian teachings...

    is it not the christians who try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality?
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.



    huh... ? :? ?
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,495
    Crazy. I'd only do that if I got an 18 year old left handed pitcher in return.
    hippiemom = goodness
  • mikepegg44mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    Crazy. I'd only do that if I got an 18 year old left handed pitcher in return.


    who was really 26
    that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
    It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
    - Joe Rogan
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,430
    Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
    What if you were kidnapped for being who you are? Your other fish would be minnows.

    I'd have a hard time watching this movie. This kind of thing really pisses me off. Pure evil. :evil:
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  • Yet another case of CHRISTIAN HYPOCRISY ! This makes me so mad and sad at the same time! :evil:
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
    SOME Muslim parents have stoned their daughters to death... when compared to the entire muslim population a very very small percentage have, and the only reason you have heard about that is that it is so abhorrant that it is reported on the internet.

    opposing anything gay is a pretty common theme amongst the christian teachings...

    is it not the christians who try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality?
    it is also SOME of the Christians that try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality

    none of which do I know ... just the opposite in fact
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,495
    mikepegg44 wrote:
    Crazy. I'd only do that if I got an 18 year old left handed pitcher in return.


    who was really 26

    So long as he signs before they find out!!!

    On topic - this is really disgusting. Child abuse and should be prosecuted as such.
    hippiemom = goodness
  • mikepegg44mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
    SOME Muslim parents have stoned their daughters to death... when compared to the entire muslim population a very very small percentage have, and the only reason you have heard about that is that it is so abhorrant that it is reported on the internet.

    opposing anything gay is a pretty common theme amongst the christian teachings...

    is it not the christians who try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality?


    in fairness anti gay teachings are prevalent in both Christianity and Islam. or am I wrong and their is a Blue Oyster in downtown Tehran?
    However, the small percentage that stones their children to death is probably less than the amount of parents that try to "convert" their children by having them kidnapped and sent to the Dominican republic, but I doubt either are really all that high.
    I have no idea why that poster brought Islam into this, both religions have their horrible points...this one is about how horrible this school is..
    that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
    It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
    - Joe Rogan
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    pandora wrote:
    Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
    SOME Muslim parents have stoned their daughters to death... when compared to the entire muslim population a very very small percentage have, and the only reason you have heard about that is that it is so abhorrant that it is reported on the internet.

    opposing anything gay is a pretty common theme amongst the christian teachings...

    is it not the christians who try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality?
    it is also SOME of the Christians that try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality

    none of which do I know ... just the opposite in fact
    pandora, according to all christian teachings homosexuality is wrong. have you heard of any other religion that does crap like pray the gay away or send them to straight camp? i haven't.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Yet another topic with outrageous subject matter so people can rant and claim
    religion is bad

    when it is some people within that religion that are bad

    it would be like drawing a conclusion saying all gays lack understanding and love
    they promote hate and disrespect towards any and all that do not agree with them
    they are angry and spiteful towards those who will not accept them
    and even towards those that do!

    this would be ridiculous to even entertain...

    when in reality most gays are understanding and loving people
    an inspiration, secure in their fight for rights, and accepting
    of those who are discouraging
    they remain respectful and determined to overcome
    and have what they deserve... this done without hate ...
    this why the movement is growing

    this good common sense for a peaceful loving world ... bridges built by love

    people are individuals within their beliefs and loves
    and to generalize is to dismiss that
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    pandora wrote:
    SOME Muslim parents have stoned their daughters to death... when compared to the entire muslim population a very very small percentage have, and the only reason you have heard about that is that it is so abhorrant that it is reported on the internet.

    opposing anything gay is a pretty common theme amongst the christian teachings...

    is it not the christians who try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality?
    it is also SOME of the Christians that try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality

    none of which do I know ... just the opposite in fact
    pandora, according to all christian teachings homosexuality is wrong. have you heard of any other religion that does crap like pray the gay away or send them to straight camp? i haven't.
    So you believe all Christians who attend church and consider themselves Christians
    believe homosexuality is wrong? and that wrong....

    Boy are you wrong if that is the case ... you may not see the individuals within the church
    I guess
  • JTHJTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    according to all christian teachings homosexuality is wrong.

    False
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    pandora wrote:
    SOME Muslim parents have stoned their daughters to death... when compared to the entire muslim population a very very small percentage have, and the only reason you have heard about that is that it is so abhorrant that it is reported on the internet.

    opposing anything gay is a pretty common theme amongst the christian teachings...

    is it not the christians who try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality?
    it is also SOME of the Christians that try to "pray the gay away" or try to "cure" homosexuality

    none of which do I know ... just the opposite in fact
    pandora, according to all christian teachings homosexuality is wrong. have you heard of any other religion that does crap like pray the gay away or send them to straight camp? i haven't.

    pandora wrote:
    [pandora, according to all christian teachings homosexuality is wrong. have you heard of any other religion that does crap like pray the gay away or send them to straight camp? i haven't.
    So you believe all Christians who attend church and consider themselves Christians
    believe homosexuality is wrong? and that wrong....

    Boy are you wrong if that is the case ... you may not see the individuals within the church
    I guess

    I believe ALL christian teachings believe homosexuality is wrong. Key word there is teachings now do I believe all christians believe homosexuality is wrong no. However, like my mother a devout christian who believes it IS wrong she also accepts them for what they are people who happen to love the same sex.

    Peace
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Many different views on this my mother points to a few of these below....

    http://www.twopaths.com/faq_homosexuality.htm
    What Does the Bible say about Homosexuality?

    There are twelve mentions of homosexuality in the Bible:

    2 refer to rape (Genesis 19:5, Judges 19:22)
    5 refer to cult prostitution (Deuteronomy 23:17-18, 1 Kings 14:23-24, 15:12-13, 22:46, 2 Kings 23:6-8)
    1 refers to prostitution and pederasty (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
    4 are nonspecific (Leviticus 18:21-22, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Timothy 1:8-10)
    Old Testament
    The first mention in the Bible is in Genesis 19:1-13. The wicked men of Sodom attempted a homosexual rape of two messengers from God who had come to visit Lot. As a result of this and other widespread wickedness, God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in a storm of fire and brimstone.

    The next two mentions are in Leviticus:

    You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. (NKJ, Leviticus 18:22)

    If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. (NKJ, Leviticus 20:13)


    Life was harsh in early Old Testament times. The wanderings and struggle for survival of the Israelites did not permit prisons or rehabilitation. Anyone who deviated seriously from the norm was either stoned to death or exiled. The Old Testament prescribed the death penalty for the crimes of murder, attacking or cursing a parent, kidnapping, failure to confine a dangerous animal resulting in death, witchcraft and sorcery, sex with an animal, doing work on the Sabbath, incest, adultery, homosexual acts, prostitution by a priest's daughter, blasphemy, false prophecy, perjury in capital cases and false claim of a woman's virginity at the time of marriage.

    It must be emphasized that, according to the New Testament, we are no longer under the harsh Old Testament Law (John 1:16-17, Romans 8:1-3, 1 Corinthians 9:20-21). The concern with punishment is now secondary to Jesus' message of repentance and redemption. Both reward and punishment are seen as properly taking place in eternity, rather than in this life.

    In Old Testament times, homosexual activity was strongly associated with idolatrous cult prostitution as in 1 Kings 14:24, 15:12. (There was also cult prostitution by females.) In fact, the word "abomination," used in both mentions of homosexual acts in Leviticus, is a translation of the Hebrew word tow' ebah which, according to Strong's Greek/Hebrew Dictionary, means something morally disgusting, but it also has a strong implication of idolatry. Thus, many Bible scholars believe the condemnations in Leviticus are more a condemnation of the idolatry than of the homosexual acts themselves. However, that interpretation is not certain.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
    Good American Christian fathers rape their sons and daughters and sit in the pews on Sunday. What is your point?
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Shameful.

    I'll never understand how the way one lives his/her own life has such an impact on another's peace of mind.
  • So Pandora... You say that if I only stop being so mean and angry and treat the evil monster Christianazis with "love and respect" that they might stop selling their gay kids into white slavery in third world countries where rescue is nearly impossible?

    Wow. :!: :roll:
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    edited February 2012
    Yet another case of CHRISTIAN HYPOCRISY ! This makes me so mad and sad at the same time! :evil:

    It's not Christian Hypocrisy,
    its people who call themselves "Christians" who are uneducated about "their own" book.

    The simple truth (and i'm not going to go too deep in to this until someone calls out for specifics, just for the sake of my time) is that VERY RARELY, IF EVER DOES ***ANY*** BOOK IN THE BIBLE SPECIFICALLY CONDONE A MALE-MALE OR FEMALE-FEMALE LOVE RELATIONSHIP.

    MOST OF WHAT IS\HAS BEEN CONSTRUED AS ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT IN THE BIBLE STEMS FROM EITHER WOEFULLY IGNORANT OR MALEFICENT MISTRANSLATION OF TERMS.

    The Old Testament certainly addresses a litany of morality issues, as it was clear that the Jewish people, coming out of Babylon were in deep need of "reminding" of right and wrong. The times when anything legitimately approaching condemnations of homosexuality DOES crop up in the Old Testament, these references are largely framed in the context of FERTILITY CULT WORSHIP \ PAGAN TEMPLE PROSTITUTION, ETC. (sure, we can argue over Leviticus ... but let's wait on that)

    The Old Testament condemnations of SOMDOM are the ones most often confused with condemnations of "homosexuality". While in general terms Sodomites are often described as promiscuous or sexually immoral, if you read Ezekiel's claims about the sins of Sodom that list is: " pride, gluttony, sloth, greed, and failure to help the poor." Sodom was PROUD before the Lord and looked not after the care of it's own.

    A Better Understanding of How The Story Of Sodom Got Perverted (haha)
    The Myth of Sodom

    REGARDING THE NEW TESTAMENT

    THERE IS ***NOTHING*** IN THE NEW TESTAMENT REGARDING HOMOSEXUALITY ***OUTSIDE OF ROMANS, WHICH IS REFERRING TO LONG-AGO HISTORY AND MALE TEMPLE PROSTITUTION .

    Regarding Romans:
    Historical & Religious Context of Romans I

    EVERY OTHER SINGLE "REFERENCE" TO HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE TERM "ARSENOKOITES". (we are free to debate this here, but this is to the best of my admittedly only partial knowledge... but if you want to debate, bring something to the table besides "that's bullshit")

    This term, which in the long history of the Bible was translated as ***SODOMITES*** in newer translations started to appear translated as "abusers of themselves with mankind" which has become understood to mean "homosexuals".

    THE TERM ARSENOKOITES, from the greek compound word arseno-koitai, LITERALLY MEANS "‘the male who has many beds’. THIS HAS ZERO TO DO WITH HOMOSEXUALITY.

    I am not a giant "Defender of The Bible", but if you understand that the New Testament was a MOVEMENT OF GENERAL COMPASSION FOR MANKIND ***IN RESPONSE*** TO AN OVER-LEGALISTIC MORAL SYSTEM (Jewish law) ... you would have to be completely mislead to come to think that the New Testament or the Words of Jesus would ever condemn anyone for AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE.

    In fact, Jesus, who claims he came to "add to" and not "take away from" the law, buttresses his entire case for these "additions to the law" upon the notion that the old laws too much specified what SHOULD NOT be done, instead of addressing what SHOULD be done.

    DO NOT KILL YOUR BROTHER, that is okay, says Jesus,
    but HAVE ONLY LOVING THOUGHTS IN YOUR HEART, is BETTER.
    This is where he was going.
    He wanted to ELEVATE consciousness so that people no longer operated only out of FEAR of a religious law, but out of LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR EACHOTHER.
    He wanted people to scrutinize their own thoughts, words and actions SO GREATLY that they ONLY ever thought, said, or did what in their heart they knew was right and honorable.

    He was NEVER concerned with specific legal provisions against ANYTHING.
    He simply wanted to turn people away from ignorant sin and towards LOVE FOR GOD ***AND FOR EACHOTHER***.

    What place does a blanket hatred for homosexuals have ANYWHERE in this context?

    People on here, if you have this belief that the New Testament is some maddeningly hypocritical Hollier Than Though rant ... i encourage \ implore you to actually pick up a copy of the bible and just read a Gospel or two.

    How you could come to the conclusion that it was hateful or divisive is beyond me. The ONLY division Jesus ever acknowledges ("but to bring a sword") encouraging is between The Unrepentant Sinner and The Saved. Reading beyond this much more than Right Vs. Wrong is probably not warranted, as Jesus was in that passage attempting to illustrate that those who are lost in selfish love and sin are often "violently" opposed to the light of truth (and thus he brings a sword, or inherent conflict). Most people (who aren't trying to score political points) are generally capable of understanding at a base level what a selfish, and "evil" or "wicked" (or "godless", heaven forbid) person is. Someone who has not come to understand their own one-ness with the rest of mankind, who may prop himself up by trodding down his brother, who may do undeniable wrong (murder, theft) and certainly who has nothing but selfish love in his heart. Even then, what is implored is to love him the best you can and help him find his way - to turn the other cheek.
    Post edited by DriftingByTheStorm on
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    pandora wrote:
    So you believe all Christians who attend church and consider themselves Christians
    believe homosexuality is wrong? and that wrong....

    Boy are you wrong if that is the case ... you may not see the individuals within the church
    I guess
    no, i believe that the teachings and tenets of christianity preach that homosexuality is wrong. if you are catholic and you believe otherwise you believe contrary to the teachings of the church.

    any church that follows the bible uses the bible to justify their anti gay stance.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • pandora wrote:
    So you believe all Christians who attend church and consider themselves Christians
    believe homosexuality is wrong? and that wrong....

    Boy are you wrong if that is the case ... you may not see the individuals within the church
    I guess
    no, i believe that the teachings and tenets of christianity preach that homosexuality is wrong. if you are catholic and you believe otherwise you believe contrary to the teachings of the church.

    any church that follows the bible uses the bible to justify their anti gay stance.

    Give me ANY BIBLE PASSAGE THAT CONDEMNS HOMOSEXUALITY,
    AND THEN WE CAN TALK.
    Most (if not all) of what is used to justify Anti-Gay sentiment STEMS FROM MINSUNDERSTANDING.
    :D
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • Muslim parents stone their daughters to death.

    But everybody watch this birdie while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.


    I got bigger fish to fry.
    Good American Christian fathers rape their sons and daughters and sit in the pews on Sunday. What is your point?


    My point is I get bored trashing religion all day in a chat room. My heart is for love, not hate.

    Guess your point is your dad is a creep?
  • So Pandora... You say that if I only stop being so mean and angry and treat the evil monster Christianazis with "love and respect" that they might stop selling their gay kids into white slavery in third world countries where rescue is nearly impossible?

    Wow. :!: :roll:


    How can calling Christians "Nazi's" not be against the posting guidelines?

    What would your reaction be if someone called all gays like yourself, a derogatory name like that on this forum?

    I think you are empty inside.... which is why you spew so much hate at others.

    Im going to pray for your hell-bound soul... ;)
  • KatKat Posts: 4,904
    Another religious war. Until a religious topic can be discussed reasonably without name-calling and blanket statements about EVERY person who follows the religion thinking the same way, we just can't have these threads. They may be more divisive than the political discussions. This one is done.
    Falling down,...not staying down
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