Jesus Camp

I know I'm late to the party, but I finally saw the 2006 documentary "Jesus Camp", and DEAR LORD, that was possibly the scariest film I have ever watched. The documentary was infamous enough to have the camp featured in it shut down, and with good reason. Many of the children, in my opinion, appear to be brainwashed into believing far-right Christian ideology, and will even die for God. Hmmm...a religious camp filled with revolution-minded zealots that indoctrinate children to fight and die for God...where have I heard that before?

In short, the documentary is quite disturbing, but don't think that this covers fundamentalist Christianity as a whole; it's just the radical fringe movement that's giving their religion a bad name, similar to al-Qaida being one of the main causes for Islamophobia. You can watch "Jesus Camp" here. (The film is divided up into nine parts. The link takes you to the first part.)

Extremism, whether religious or otherwise, is never a good thing; Aristotle was said to apply "moderation in all things", and even the Bible stresses moderation in 1 Corinthians 9:25:

"And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."

Whether you're a Christian, Muslim, Jew, atheist, or otherwise, I think we all can agree on praying for the all of the children who went through the Kids on Fire Summer Camp and other camps like it. They'll need it.



"Jesus Camp" © Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures.

Something nice

I believe this is the first 100% digital illustration that I've posted here.

I drew this with a Wacom Intuos4 and the GIMP, and it came out quite well. September 11 is tomorrow, so I decided to create something that we all need to seek out and think about, despite of all this madness.

Let's pray that we would be good to (and not kill) each other in the end.

Coming Soon...

Coming this September. More to come. Save your pennies, folks.



Image © Josh Blair & ray n.

ROM Hack Showcase - Pedobear's Day Out

Today is Friday the 13th.

This week, I've posted something quite relevant. The video posted above is a ROM hack of the "Friday the 13th" video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. But, rather than having Jason as the villain, this hack stars someone far more sinister.

Special thanks goes to Pope Hentai for authoring the hack and to Badderhacks.net for hosting it.

It may be Friday the 13th, but try to have a good night. :)

Our Alliance - A Lasting Partnership

Recently, the United States Armed Forces in Japan posted a cute manga highlighting 50 years of the American-Japanese post-war alliance. Titled "Watashi-tachi no Dōmei", or "Our Alliance", it shows cute representations of the USA (named Usa-kun) and Japan (named Arai Anzu) living together as friends and partners and teaches readers what the alliance stands for. You can read the first chapter for free on their website here. More chapters will be posted in the future.

For a propaganda piece, it's quite cute. But, it's obvious that the USFJ omit the negative press concerning American G.I. presence in Japan, such as mass protests by the Japanese about US military bases in Okinawa and a number of schoolgirl rapes being committed by servicemen.

You can download the English scanlation here, courtesy of /a/non scanlations.

じゃあね,


Sources: 1, 2, 3 (Final source link is NSFW.)

"Watashi-tachi no Dōmei — Eizoku-teki Partnership" © 2010 U.S. Forces Japan.