Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady filmed this documentary right after their Boys of Baraka film, Jesus Camp. This movie has an almost unbiased view on evangelical Christian children and the camp they go to. In this particular camp, we meet Becky Fisher, the leader of the camp alongside her own crew of people to get the children to be purified and believe in creationism and other heavy fundamental religious beliefs. But before the children go to this camp, they already come from a evangelical background from their parents.

The film focuses on a select few children, as it did with the Boys of Baraka, and really grasps the essence of what these children believe and what may be the outcome for these children. The things the children do in this movie go beyond what I believe that these children should be doing at their age, e.g. going to anti abortion rallies. But what I found with this particular movie that chills me is how Becky says that people in the middle east are raising their children to be soldiers to fight the war, so why can’t we build an army to aid God’s war. Of course, in a different view, you may simply agree with this, and that’s what makes this movie more powerful.

What I found with this movie is that it the overall message is different for different people. Since I come from a more liberal background, I tend to have abhorrent feelings for the leader of the camp and the children who blindly follow the religious view on politics, science, and other concepts. But a more fundamental religious person might think that the movie is a great promotion for getting Americans to be more active in their churches and political rallies.

In a follow-up interview I saw with the directors, they were asked what they felt about the whole movie and the message behind it, and they simply responded that the film expressed everything they felt. Of course, this may not make much sense because the movie tries very hard to not reveal any bias. But then again, they wouldn’t be able to get their film crew in this camp if Becky didn’t consent. So in a way, this movie captures the glimpse of a selected sect of Evangelicals without making them look like something other than human, which we, as the media and as a people, tend to do a lot of.