'Muslims train their children from the time they're five years old,' says Becky Fischer, director of a Pentecostal Christian children's summer camp in the USA. 'I want to see young people as radically committed to Jesus Christ as they are to Islam. I want to see them laying down their lives for the Gospel'.
This Oscar-nominated documentary provides an insight into the US evangelical Christian community that Becky Fischer hopes will have 'extreme liberals' quaking in their boots.
Fischer, a member of the influential US Pentecostal group Harvest International Ministries (or HIM, for short), believes that Christians are fighting a 'war' against liberalism, secular society, abortion, Islam and any number of 'anti-Christian' targets.
The serious training for 'God's army' takes place at Fischer's annual summer camp in unsuitably named Devil's Lake, North Dakota but, as the filmmakers show, for many of the children, indoctrination begins at home.
Unsurprisingly, the film caused huge controversy when first released in America. Critics claimed that children were being made to pray to George W Bush and being led towards the Republican Party.
As a measure of how divided America is, on its release the film was used by both the liberal and the evangelical community to support their world view.
Fischer herself has endorsed the film and used it to advertise her ministry, even though the revelations in it outraged so many people that she was ultimately forced to close down her summer camp.
