This documentary is honestly a perfect representation of how manipulative people can be. Seriously, this documentary is just completely blasphemous!I couldn't tell if the kids in this film were learning about God, getting closer to God, or just getting brainwashed! This documentary is a great example how religious extremism of any kind is just evil, but it's another thing when you take away the innocence of a child.After watching this, I started to reflect on my whole life, realizing how great I had it, since I didn't have to endure this nonsense. I feel sorry for all the children that had to.If you want to give this review a check out, be my guest. You will be disturbed.

Fast forward... ten years later. Sommerkamp (yes, that's his real name) was one of the kid protagonists. He has abandoned evangelical Christianity, living with a group of spiritual seekers in Mount Shasta, California. His split from the evangelical world happening when his father came out as gay. He says he spent several years angry at the church, but has since discovered peace in eastern mysticism, quantum mechanics, and psychotropic drugs. "Was it child abuse? Yes and no," he said in a recent interview, about his time at Kids on Fire church camp. "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."

I only decided to write a review for this documentary because after reading through pages of reviews on IMDb, it seemed to me that a lot of people failed to understand its purpose. Many people giving it 1 or 2 stars because they believe this documentary to be disgusting or cruel or child abuse etc, clearly failing to understand that the entire purpose of said documentary was to highlight these exact problems!I'd been meaning to watch this for a while because I'd heard stories from friends in America about Bible camps and the like, where children are sent for what is realistically brainwashing Personally, I find all religions to have some for of mental torture involved (especially for children) so my point of view is definitely biased. However, this doesn't change the fact that this documentary does an excellent job of highlighting some major flaws with how people teach religion. If you are delusional enough to believe that religion is all good, I highly recommend watching this documentary. When you think that these children are going to spend their lives sheltered from reality, sheltered from learning, sheltered from experience, sheltered from truth: you can't help but think that these children never truly live. One issue with this documentary is that it doesn't really delve to deep into any one area of these camps. It is nothing more than an edited observation of such a camp with the occasional statistic appearing on screen. While this is a downside, it also works as a positive aspect because this documentary is only 1hr 30mins so it doesn't really drag out.

In the American heartland, evangelical Christians are pushing their agenda. It's the Children's Prayer Conference at the Christ Triumphant Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri. Becky Fischer is a Pentecostal children's minister preaching to little kids. She also runs an annual summer camp for evangelical children in North Dakota. She sees the indoctrination of kids in Islam and thinks Christians are falling behind. The movie follows several kids in their religious homes as they go to the summer camp.I don't like the opening with the radio talk show. It sets the movie off in a combative political sphere without putting the evidence out first. I rather the movie show what's going on and let the audience decide. The movie is simply pushing too hard its own agenda which puts this into a he-says-she-says territory. It may be eye opening for non-evangelicals or not from middle America but this movie is preaching to the choir.