In the September 13 issue of the Oklahoma Gazette, I found a review of a new movie, “Jesus Camp.” (A truncated version of the review is online, but the full text is only in print.)

“Jesus Camp” is a documentary exposé of a Christian summer camp for children in North Dakota. The Gazette review, headlined “Holy Terrors,” warned that “Jesus Camp” would be “the most terrifying film you’re likely to see this year.” Wow. Scarier than “Snakes on a Plane”?

What bizarre and terrifying crimes go on in this Christian camp, I wondered? Whippings? Pedophilia? Mastoplasty?

No, none of that. It’s worse. As this terrifying film proves, these unsuspecting Christian kids are being taught Christianity! For a whole week!

It’s chilling to watch these kids deep in the throes of religious ecstasy — some not quite comprehending what’s going on, but all of them swept up in the mania of the adults leading worship. The most heartbreaking sequence occurs late in the film, near the camp’s climax, as a guest speaker soothingly lectures the upturned faces about the evils of abortion and one by one, places bright red stickers emblazoned “LIFE” over their mouths.

See? Sure, it might just look like the kids are having a good time, but really it’s some kind of “mania.” And Christian kids are being told abortion is evil! Heartbreaking! Can’t we do something about this?

Ewing and Grady [the filmmakers] shy away from editorializing and demonizing, electing to throw startling statistics up on screen every so often and allowing liberal talk-radio host Mike Papantonio to serve as an ersatz Greek chorus, punctuating the religious fervor with some genuinely incisive questions.

Ah, thank goodness there’s a liberal talk-radio host to do the editorializing and demonizing. The Gazette reviewer didn’t provide an example of Papantonio’s genuinely incisive questions, but I watched a trailer on the movie’s website, in which a bearded talking head whined, “They already control the White House! They control Congress!”

Yikes! Christians in the White House and Congress! How long has that been going on? Sure enough, I did some research on my own, and he’s right: there are Christians in the White House and Congress. Since 1800. Maybe if enough people see this movie, we can put a stop to it.