Camped out

Jesus Camp is a play on predictability | Mindy Belz

When Michael Moore calls a documentary about evangelical Christians scary, red-state America yawns. It's no surprise that the Fahrenheit 9/11 film director's Michigan film festival voted Jesus Camp (with limited multiplex showings in select cities) its "scariest movie," given that Moore has bashed everything else remotely tied to George Bush's America. What's startling is that moviegoers, including the evangelicals the film purports to portray, may agree with him. If Jesus Camp doesn't scare thinking Christians, it will at least sadden them.

Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka) chose a narrow slice of Christian fundamentalism—a Midwest pastor named Becky Fischer and her North Dakota summer camp, "Kids on Fire"—as emblems of Christian revival and the overplayed "Take Back America for Christ!" movement.

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