Baby Bible Bashers

[HLxxx]

I have just clicked on the advert on this site about channel 4's cutting edge programme about Baby Bible Bashers. I cannot believe that parents expose there children to this and encourage them. It is a form of child abuse to me. I go to church (not as much as i should) and my children go to a catholic school but would never subject them to such extremism. What hope do these children have of growing up with an openmind and tolerence which is required in ours and the united states multi-cultural society today. Children this age should be just having fun! Does any one share my views? HLx

yes in brazil its fairly common my pal who spent time in brazil said that they often all bunk in together (cultural)?

she had a single bed pushed right up next to the double bed, they showed a shot of it.

Samual made me cry, when he ended up in tears. He is a terrified little boy, and it was sickening to watch. His parents were so cold with him, there was no warmth, just fear. Awful.

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indeed it was def edited that way but none the less the 3 children were very much like puppets on a string

I felt so sad for all those children, I wonder what will happen as they grow up. I was when samuel was beaten off camera for what seenmed a very minor misdemeanour (not wanting to read or something). The Churches involved should not have let the children preach in this way either. There was to my mind a horrible parallel with the children in some Churches who are abused for the opposite reason-they are said to be posessed by devils.

I stopped watching it after about fifteen minutes, it was too disturbing.

Couldn't get to sleep after watching this film. Boiled with rage about it all the next day (I saw a late night repeat on Tuesday - perhaps just in Scotland?) Telling children unproven 'beliefs' to get them to behave is wicked. Threatening them with torture - being burned or eaten alive by worms, is psychological abuse of the worst sort.

Did you notice poor Samuel is home-schooled? - so no chance of getting any contradictory input to his parents' poisonous views. Hence his bewildered expression when people laughed or shouted abuse in New York - where he lives people applaud or shout Hallelujah! and Amen!

I want to send that bright little boy Sam Harris' excellent "Letter to a Christian Nation" - it cuts through all the religious claptrap, but his family would no doubt see it as a work of Satan, so no hope there.

Following the "End of the world bus tour" the other night, bonkers evangelists positively gleeful at the prospect of being "Raptured" into heaven and the rest of us all burning forever, it's time religion was moved to purely the private sphere, with none of this tiptoeing around 'sensitivities' we're seeing all too much off (Archbishop of Canterbury take note).

I've seen a bit of it now. As I suspected, completely bonkers.

So many things wrong with it from a Christian perspective - even a fundie, bible-believing lunatic like me. It's just wrong to make merchandise of the gospel, and it's wrong to put so much responsibility on to children's shoulders.

It was just exploitation, simple as that.

i watched it and found it very disturbing also.

nothing wrong with children having a faith, and being raised in it, but to have no balance, no concept of the real world...

the grandmother of the boy who sang and preached, she was very much 'me me me' and criticised him roundly for not 'respecting' her enough in his preaching.. i think that says a lot.

i hope that when these children are older, they get the chance to make a real decision about whether they stay involved or not.

using them as moneymaking puppets really.