Hilarious and Sad Jesus Camp (2006) Quotes

I have gathered the following quotes from the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp that is about kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham. The quotes speak for themselves. Some quotes were copied from the users of the IMDB forum .

  • "Did you get to the part in here where it says science doesn't prove anything?” - Levi's Mom
  • “[Referring to President George W. Bush] He has really brought some real credibility, um, to the Christian faith.” -Becky Fischer (adult)
  • "We just ask to be covered with the blood of Jesus" -Becky Fischer (adult)
  • Family praying over their breakfast, "And protect George Bush's soul and pleas, God, find a way to end abortion"

"I wanna see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ, as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I wanna see them as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in Pakistan, in Israel, in Palestine and all those different places" -Becky Fischer (adult)

"We just ask to be covered with the blood of Jesus" -Becky Fischer (adult)

“I can go into a playground of kids that don't know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no time at all, and just moments later they can be seeing visions and hearing the voice of God, because they're so open. They are so usable in Christianity.” -Becky Fischer (adult)

“We believe that there's two kinds of people in this world: people who love Jesus and people who don't.” - Levi's Mom (adult)

"If you look at creationism, you'll realize it's the only possible answer." - Levi's Mom

"That's just what dad says!" –Levi (child)

Rachel (child) to her bowling ball, "In the name of Jesus make a good hit."


Rachel (child) to the girl in the bowling alley, "God wants to love on you."

Tori (child) after dancing to her Christian Heavy Metal music, “When I dance I really have to make sure that that’s God, because people will notice when I’m just dancing for the flesh and I do that sometimes and I must admit I really need to get over that.

 

Rachel (child) (paraphrase), “When I grow up, I want to be a manicurist. I can talk about Christ as I do their nails & I could play Christian music in the background. It would be very relaxing"

"God doesn't like it when you go to Church & you just sit there quietly & say 'we worship you' - he likes it when you jump up & down & shout Halleujah!'” Rachel (child)

Rap song in the background "Who's in the house? JC!" and "Hey homey. We kickin' it for Christ"

"Every time I'm around a non-Christian, something just doesn't feel right. It makes my spirit feel yucky" –Tori (child)

“Were talking this week about how the devil uses tactics to destroy out lives. The first tactic is to temp you with sin. -Becky Fischer (adult)

On the subject of Harry Potter, “warlocks are enemies of God . . . and had it been in the old testament, Harry Potter would have been put to death.” -Becky Fischer (adult)

“Amen” –Crowd

 

“Sometimes I don’t believe what the bible says, it makes me a faker, it makes me feel guilty and bad because God has always talked to me about that and I kind have always rejected him.” –Blond haired boy (child) as he is turning to a section of the Bible that is bookmarked with a dollar bill.

“Kids you got to change things, we got too many Christian goners that are fat and lazy, they don’t want to give up their evening meal, they don’t want to fast for three days or forty days.” -Becky Fischer (adult) (she is extremely overweight).