The Christian Madrasses story is back in the news as the movie "Jesus Camp" is about to be released.

You guys might remember our previous conversation about this last month in which we had a troll indicate that Christianity was a religion of peace, so it was impossible for them to truly incite hate by brainwashing children to worship George Bush (he then proceeded to say the real problem in Ireland wasn't Catholics v. Protestants, but mere nationalistic hatred for the English - can't it be both?).

Anyway, as a pre-emptive strike against a similar innane argument that any religion lacks blood on it's hands, here's some choice quotes.

"It's an absolute, straight-up us-against-them," Sandler said. "It's, you're either with us or you're against us. ... Not only are you a sinner, but you are working for the enemy — the enemy being Satan."
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One child in "Jesus Camp" goes so far as to say, "We're a key generation to bringing Jesus back."

And we all know the pre-conditions for that occurring (in the horribly misunderstood book of revelations which describes the freaking Roman empire damnit).

Second, I think I can cite Pope Ratfinger's behavior over the last week. La Boheme says, and I agree, that La Popa could not possibly have "accidentally" referred to Islam as a dirty violent religion and insulted Mohammed purely by chance.

He probably meant to do it, after all, we're not under the illusion that he's stupid, he's just theologically misinformed like all religious people. In other words, we think he might be picking a religious fight with the Muslims, and it sounds like he's succeeded. They've got muslims throwing firebombs at churches in Jerusalem (hitting the Episcopalians no less), and hardliners calling for la Popa's assassination. Maybe he's realized he'll never be as popular as J2P2 and is going for the martyrdom route?

Benedict want's to be remembered for more than this:

I'm sure a religious war will do it. Religion of peace my ass, he's thrown down a gauntlett.