I haven’t heard anything this emotionally disturbing in a long time. There is simply no way a child could possibly understand what they’re talking about on a subject so intricate and difficult as religion. This reminds me of those interviews with Muslim children you see on the news when they talk about how great Allah is, yet they don’t have a clue as to what they’re talking about. This is some whack stuff in my opinion which is why I share it with you guys :)
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That is pretty beat-up. The sad thing is, I know probably know the 17-year-old versions of those kids. They’re my friends and all, but I can’t help feeling alienated as a Jew among cross-carrying members of the God Squad.
“We can be 8, 9, 10 years old, brain-washed, and creepy, Lord!”
Please avoid using flash 8, there is no player for linux or mac…
Yeah that’s not creepy at all. Yikes.
Sorry Muzzle, but the source was in Flash 8 and I don’t have an adequate way of converting it to something else. If anyone has a suggestion, please contact me through the contact page.
gasmonso
Stunning, this appeals directly to the intellect of the veiwer. Thats it, i`m converting !
Kind of reminisent of http://www.isratv.com/video/filmpmwadsl.asx
WOW…I feel gross now. those poor kids.
First, let’s all agree that yes, this is weird. The whole idea of recording children praying like this and then playing it back feels like some sort of religious child porn more than a devotional exercise. I’m not saying this is sexual, but that it’s posing children into specific shapes and sound-bytes for the pleasure/fantasy of imagining that if you do the right thing, all children–your children–can pray like this.
Second, children imitate those around them. Laughing at these kids is as much fun as laughing at a kid trying to ride a bike too big or trying to use training wheels. These kids are, in simple, imitative ways, grasping at mystery. As children, it would not surprise me one bit that they come closer than the adults they are mimicking to discovering God.
And of course, there’s the possibility that this is all a game to these kids and they know if they’ll pray loud and fast and like Sister Slappy, they’ll get an extra hot dog.
Sometimes, you just never know.
OK, that is it. I’m almost tempted to go back to school so I can become an abortion doctor.
dont youjust want to yell shut the fuck up and beat all those little kids with a bat? i really, really do.
You should try listening to this stuff while listening to Venetian snares….creepy
lolz…. little crazy twat brainwashed kids.
i wonder how does thyr parents look like :S
Child abuse.
ugh. Thats the creepiest shit I’ve seen/heard in a while.
I think I need a shower.
How terrible…how sad.
Where are these kids from?
Their parents need to be locked up…this is a result of abuse.
Little kid,
If there was a God such as the one you believe you are beseeching, he would have already dropped right down in front of you and told you to knock it off already.
Your parents should be ashamed.
Boy, that is some real scary shit. I thinks its almost child abuse to get children to think that way, deffenatly brain washing.
Brainwashing comes in all flavors. For example, many have been brainwashed to think that multiculturalism and multiracialism are good things. One of the funniest and most foolish brainwashing slogans is “Diversity is our Greatest Strength”!
Yah, I’m with you John! One culture, one race. White Power!
John, are you inbred?
He’s just trying to start a flame war. Ignore his ignorance.
I had this playing and my husband just said, “shut that thing off. It makes me want to go get a gun”. Yikes.
LOL, it has a seriously high annoying factor that’s for sure. I would love to know who that girl is and who her parents are.
Honestly, I was impressed at how well she spoke… albeit insane. But impressive nonetheless :)
gasmonso
no wonder this world is a mess
It’s too bad that those guys bombing churches missed this one. This place is dangerous and disgusting.
Lord,please protect me from the Christians, amen
eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww!
dont blame jesus for peoples mistakes
The Hitler youth..no thought, no compassion, just whats programmed.
I’m sorry.
Jesus said “suffer the little children to come to Me”, not “let the little children suffer to come to Me.” That kind of raw, strong emotion is suffering. Children should not be brought up like that.
This is sick. The parents of these children should be in prison for child abuse. It is obsene! The sort of people who think this is good are the same people who would condemn other religions for brainwashing children!
I am a person of faith and find the video of these kids praying in that manner at that age chilling. Is this the next generation of the religious right? If so, I am leaving North America and heading towards Australia, far away from this fanaticism. American Christianity is paying a high price from its proud and arrogant declaration from their so-called “freedom” from intellectualism.
Sad, very sad. Parents teahcing their children to be fanatics. If it’s not the liberals, conservatives, or Islamic fanatics, it’s the so-cslled “Christians” ruining a generation of humanity.
“The mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
I say we all pitch in an get a commercial spot on the next Superbowl to play this video :)
gasmonso
how do i download the video i really want it to show to my church
I dont know who make the link to download it, but thanks!!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU
I have answered your prayers joel, now pleaase put a little something in the offering plate ;) Enjoy this crazy ass video my freaky friend :)
gasmonso
Joel Vargas, please do not say ‘God Bless You’ on a webpage that is obviously frequented by atheists, it is rude.
Hello godisamyth,
I’ve always been curious about the point you bring up. Why do atheists take offense to ‘God Bless You’? I’m neither an atheist nor a Christian, and when I hear it, I am slightly offended, but I cannot put my finger on why. On the face of it, taking offense to it seems as ridiculous as taking offense to ‘Happy Holidays’.
Wow, I missed this video when it was posted. I just watched it. I am not sure if I should thank godisamyth for “bumping” it into visibility or not!
Putting aside all the brainwashing implications and the possibility that these kids don’t really know what they are saying…. Doesn’t it sounds like they are suffering? Desparate? Or even in terror? That is not love that I hear. Listen to their tone of voice. That is the sound of kids who has been locked in a closet begging to be be let out (not that I’ve ever done it, but I can imagine)… pleading with his or her parents… promising to be good… saying how great the parents are and how “nothing matters” but them. Child abuse does come to mind. Creepy, indeed.
As well spoken as this child is, her thought process shows definante immaturity. She starts out with a cry to bring the nation back to God. Most likely that’s how a lot of the prayers in her church and home start, so she echos that. But eventually she gets to her point, which seems to be something about not caring what you look like in front of the church. The whole prayer centers around physical appearance. And as much as she throughs in rhetoric about loving God, blessing nations, and preaching, the root of the message really is that we shouldn’t care about our fingernail polish.
Here’s the structure:
1. The nation has fallen. We can bring them back. We can be missionaries. Our message is:
2. You are greater than me. I don’t care about my hair.
3. Thanks for dying. We don’t need toys — just you.
4. Nothing matters when we are converted. Not fingernail polish, nor hair, nor candy.
5. Deliver people who care about thier looks from Satan.
6. Let us die so we won’t care about our looks.
It’s like some prettier girl at church was making fun of her.
It reminds me of a guy I used to know who would pray “Thank you for showing me humility, so that I know I don’t have to buy a new car.” The guy made 6 figures, but his family lived in poverity and he donated 90% of the money to the church. (Not really. The bishop told him he wouldn’t except that much from him and that he should feed and clothe his kids instead. So he found other charities to donate to.) Then he’d pray about how humble he was and how buying new cars was evil. Pissed off the people at church who worked hard to buy thier new cars.
sidfaiwu Hi
To me someone saying “god bless you” is rude because it is particially preaching. It is inflicting the idea of god where it is not wanted, and preaching to those who don’t want to be preached to is rape of the mind, and there is no excuse for it. It’s like me saying to a religious person, ‘god is dead’. Yes i think that but I would not say it after everytime a religious person did a good dead for me. A religious person would find this rude.
To sum it up, if i said to a religous person “my god the bottle of ketchup blesses u” I would think there are very few who wouldnt find it offensive. Yes there is good intention, but religion is the biggest conversation the world has ever had, and I also find it very disturbing.
And a point about the video. I have found out lately about American HELL HOUSES that show plays of what will happen to you if you don’t follow god rules etc. This is the brainwashing that people often talk about. i.e. these children are shown projcted images of humans in hell, and some of these images im told would struggle to even be shown in the cinema
i really beleive this is something more than a word that aint just spoken out in blah but its something that comes only out through intimate relationship wid God,overwhelmed by his love which is expereinced only when we go to him because now i have come in to an understandin of who god is and wha it really matters and is a revelation of God to men who jesus real by his spirit and not by the mind of mindz
god blesss ya guz and jesus loves ya
“i really beleive this is something more than a word that aint just spoken out in blah but its something that comes only out through intimate relationship wid God,overwhelmed by his love which is expereinced only when we go to him because now i have come in to an understandin of who god is and wha it really matters and is a revelation of God to men who jesus real by his spirit and not by the mind of mindz
god blesss ya guz and jesus loves ya”
So what if when I say “god is dead” (or more accurately “god doesnt exist”) to a religious person, I really feel the lack of god in my heart, and am overwhelmed by the lack of his love. What if I also really understand that he cannot exist and just gotta share this.
The words and meaning don’t change. It’s still offensive.
God doesn’t exist. Jesus is dead and incapable of love. peace!!!
Someone after my own heart. The idea of god is a concept as firm a pixie dust. And thats all it is, a concept.
Think about it people…Consider that children are full of passion for things they love. If you have taught your kids to love candy or Chuck E. Cheese, or ice cream, they will with the same passion that you heard in that video, “pray” for it, until you give it to them…I’ve seen some of your children in the mall, grocery stores, etc. having a screaming fit, praying that you “buy me some candy!!!!”
So if a parent has shown their child who God is, and taught them to love him with that same conviction that your kid has learned to love “Barney,” and scream bloody murder if you don’t get them the new craze of the month, I would suggest that you should call it training of the mind rather than brainwashing. If you really want to call it brainwahing, then look at the kids around you, and see what it is that they snot, and scream, and cry and have tantrums about…When you put it in perspective, at least what these children are pleading about is not selfish, and it is a worthy cause…They are pleading for you, and me, and the world we live in.
I bet if bombs started dropping in your neighborhood right as you are reading this, then you’d probably be sounding like that little girl that very instant…So have some compassion for someone, other than yourself, because there are people, and yes little children, for whom that is a daily reality. The reason a bomb or plane or fire or lightning hasn’t hit your house, or you haven’t been caught in the cross-fire of a drive-by, could very well be because someone, like this little girl was interceding on the behalf of ignorant, selfish people.
Wow, Think about it…, you sure do make a bunch of assumptions about people not like yourself and a lot of assumptions about the universe in general.
First off, it seems as though you are trying to draw a false dichotomy between Christian kids and the kids that you see at malls, grocery stores, etc. I bet that 3/4ths of those kids at the mall ARE Christians. And I also bet that a sizable proportion of the well behaved kids have no religion at all.
Secondly, what malls, grocery stores, etc. do you go to?!? The screaming kids in the malls, grocery stores, etc. I’ve been to sound nothing like the kids in this video. Those in the video sound frightened and desperate. Those who don’t get what they want sound angry and impatient.
Thirdly, if bombs started dropping in my neighborhood I’d sound nothing like the little girl from the video. I’d be busy trying to get myself and as many other people to safety quickly. I know this because I’ve been in a few life-threatening situations.
Fourthly, we do have compassion for these children. That is precisely why we are so appalled by the video. It sounds like these kids are in pain. It’s clear that their religion is giving them no comfort!
Fifthly, your metaphysical assumptions are astounding:
a) God exists
b) God hears people’s prayers
c) God is willing to do something about it
d) God is able to do something about it
These assumptions are especially astounding when there is clear evidence that God does not answer all prayers.
Lastly, you call us ignorant and selfish. If someone is ignorant than why not enlighten them instead of insulting them? What truths do these ‘ignorant’ people lack? Are you sure that your ‘truths’ aren’t just opinions? I also fail to see how any of the posts indicate selfishness on anyone’s part. Where is your evidence?
In short, it seems that you disagree with the opinions expressed by many on this topic. But instead of offering your own opinion and letting it stand on its own merits, you resort to hyperbolic assumptions about those of us with a different opinion and insult us as well. Such behavior is shameful, especially from someone who trying to claim the moral high ground.
lol…sounds like you made more assumtions than you think I actually made…I never said God existed. I never assumed what belief kids are in the malls. and Lastly, I never called any of you ingnorant and selfish. I stated that she was probably interceding on the behalf of ignorant, and selfish people (I did not include the word “you” which means that you put yourself in that category…not me…lol)
Many are making the assumption that a deep plee or cry for something means that the child is being abused or something. They could just be very passionate about their desire and lack the maturity ask in a somewhat rational way, or have the mature patience to wait on a result, hence my examples about candy and stuff.
If you were offended by the things that I said, I apologize to you. I am not a religious person at all. I believe that there is a big distinction in what I believe, and a religious system, which is a man-made system of how they interpret what is actual Truth.
I’m not attacking anyone. I just don’t like to see a bunch of people bond together and agree on something for reasons that don’t match up with their own beliefs, and have not considered the similarities in their own world of existence.
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lol…sounds like you made more assumptions than you think I actually made…I never said God existed. I never even said that I believe in God. I never assumed what belief kids are in the malls. and Lastly, I never called any of you ingnorant and selfish. I stated that she was probably interceding on the behalf of ignorant, and selfish people (I did not include the word “you†which means that you put yourself in that category…not me…lol)
Many are making the assumption that a deep plee or cry for something means that the child is being abused or something. They could just be very passionate about their desire, and lack the maturity to ask in a somewhat rational way, or have the mature patience to wait on a result, hence my examples about candy and stuff.
If you were offended by the things that I said, I apologize to you. I am not a religious person at all. I believe that there is a big distinction in what I believe, and a religious system, which is a man-made system of how they interpret what is actual Truth.
I’m not attacking anyone. I just don’t like to see a bunch of people bond together and agree on something for reasons that don’t match up with their own beliefs, and they have not stopped to consider the reality of the similarities in their own world of existence.
On further review, I did definitely make one assumption. There may be one or two more assumption I made, but I defend the reasoning behind them below. So, allow me to revisit:
I did make an assumption about your belief about the screaming kids in malls. For that, I apologize.
I still assert that these kids don’t sound anything like angry mall kids.
You still assumed how I/we would react in a moment of crisis.
Here is my logic concerning your belief in God:
“The reason a bomb or plane or fire or lightning hasn’t hit your house, or you haven’t been caught in the cross-fire of a drive-by, could very well be because someone, like this little girl was interceding on the behalf of ignorant, selfish people.”
You claim that bad things don’t happen to us/me because of the girl’s intervention (via prayer to God), which implies that God exists, hears prayers, cares about prayers, and can do something about it.
From the same quote from your post, the insults can be seen. I’ll add emphasis to make this clearer:
“The reason a bomb or plane or fire or lightning hasn’t hit your house, or you haven’t been caught in the cross-fire of a drive-by, could very well be because someone, like this little girl was interceding on the behalf of ignorant, selfish people.”
So are you saying that the “ignorant, selfish people” you refer to is not the same “you” used earlier in the sentence? If not, on who’s behalf is the girl praying for to save my house from lightening?