Welcome to Camp Hypocrisy!

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I passed by a truck that had a Ted Nugent sticker on it today 

This wasn’t an old truck, this was a new truck… and the sticker was new also. So what I’m wondering is, why are they still making Ted Nugent stickers?

Don’t get me wrong, I was a fan of Ted Nugent… when I was fourteen. Look, just because Mr. Loincloth is a barbaric and senseless animal killer doesn’t mean he didn’t make great music… on one album… once. 

I think he got his image from watching Conan the Barbarian movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, I can’t confirm that, but I can see him taking one look at that loincloth and saying “That’s what I’m wearing!” At some point he thought it was a good idea to add a cowboy hat.

Whenever I hear one of his only two good songs, it reminds me of the time I went to a religious camp with my friend. You know me, I can’t stand religious dogma, so you may be wondering why I’d agree to go to a religious camp for the weekend in the first place. Well, I didn’t know it was a religious camp when I agreed to it. I only knew it was “a total blast” as my friend described it. 

What really sealed the deal was when she told me that on the last night of the weekend, the girls would sneak out of their cabins and go raid the boy’s cabins. I asked her what exactly would we do once we got there, and she said maybe kiss some boys, so I was in. It was all innocent fourteen year old fun. 

Turns out, it wasn’t a total blast after all. 

One afternoon, the entire camp of three hundred gathered at this outdoor forum and the counselors got up on stage and started talking all this religious stuff. Then they brought up other counselors to talk about their experiences through the church; how it changed them and made them better. 

One woman went up and confessed that she used to be a lesbian, but discovered she was just a sinner and was saved by the church and no longer a lesbian. Tears were streaming down her face during her confession, which led me to believe she wasn’t changed at all, just frighteningly confused. 

I’m pretty sure you can’t become un-gay.

My friend sat through this entire debacle like it was no big deal so I leaned over and asked her if she believed this crap. She just smiled and said something about not believing “all of it”. Then the woman sitting on the other side of me, who had been crying tears of salvation, asked me if I wanted to go up on stage and get “saved”. 

What? Hell no! Firstly, let’s get something straight; I’m not a sinner (excluding this blog, of course), and secondly, how did she know I wasn’t part of “them”? I must’ve been singled out early on. I replied I wasn’t ready. What I was ready for though, was to get the hell out of there. 

It did get slightly fun after that. There were camp games and competitions and things lightened up a little. Hmm, maybe a little too much. On the second day, one of the male camp counselors was standing around talking to a group of us girls, and he seemed to be really enjoying himself. We were giggling and talking about how cute we all thought he was. Then one of the girls dared him to kiss one of us, and he immediately pointed at me. 

I got giddy; he chose me out of the whole group! I was just a young, innocent girl expecting a peck on the lips by the cutest counselor in the camp. Instead, he leaned in, pressed his lips lightly against mine, then proceeded to stick his tongue in my mouth. He was in his twenties, I was fourteen. 

Nothing says “pedophilia” like a church camp weekend.

The final night came; the night when we were supposed to raid the boy’s cabin, but on the way there, we got caught and was chased by the cult leader and his minion. So they led us into an auditorium where two hundred folding chairs were set up, and told us for our “punishment” we had to break them down. It was fun at first, even though I had stubbed my toe during the chase and it was bleeding. 

We were joking around, laughing while accepting our fate, and when we finished, we thought it was over, time to go to bed. But no, they commanded us to break them down and set them up again… four times. It was one o’clock in the morning by the time they allowed us to go back to our bunks. I never did get first aid treatment for my bloody toe, but they got a huge boner out of being sadistic assholes. 

I really, really wanted to have a good time at this fucking asshole camp, I really did. My friend blasted Ted Nugent the night before our departure so it seemed promising. Instead, I was almost indoctrinated into a cult, slightly molested by a pedophile, and mistreated by the cult leader. 

Published by Clever Girl

Intrepid writer, reader and comedian.

29 thoughts on “Welcome to Camp Hypocrisy!”

  3. I once got lured into a Unification Church retreat. It was the most boring 2 days. From the time you woke up, one of the moonies was at your side saying that the devil was keeping you from joining them. The highlight was playing volleyball but right after it was over they started preaching again. I didn’t know if they were going to let me leave.

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  4. Yikes! I’m not religious at all but I know many Christians since I live in the fucking Bible Belt! Some are really great people but some are the biggest hypocrites that ever lived. I can’t imagine how terrifying a church camp like that would be for an unsuspecting teen!

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  6. “I’m pretty sure you can’t become un-gay.” Shhhhh! The social justice warriors will descend upon you like shoppers at Walmart on Black Friday. She could’ve have been gender fluid. Insert big winkie here.

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  7. I’m not surprised to read this one bit. A lot goes on at church camp and mission trips. When I was little, mom and dad let me go to church with a young man down the street from us. I thought he was really cool. He was in his early 20’s, had a pilot license, and was nice to me. Before we left his house for church, he showed me Playboy magazines and tried to get me to take a shower with him. I had a weird feeling about it, but didn’t realize how serious it was until years later. I never told my parents.

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      1. It’s all a matter of perspective. Had it been a 20-year-old lady when I was eight, I’d have taken the shower, enjoyed every minute of it, and been thankful to this day for having been so blessed.

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  9. I got saved once but it wasn’t for me so i eventually politely declined and returned to my old wicked way’s. i didn’t see much kiddy fiddling but they were particularly obsessed with sodomy. Suspiciously so if u ask me…

    That said a pastor did give me the best advice I’ve ever had…

    If she smokes, she pokes.

    He’s dead now but he was pretty sound.

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  10. You write well, and I smiled because you are funny. Saddened me though to hear of your Christian camp experience. I don’t think it was typical. I was a counselor for a month at christian camp when I was 17 and helped out with canoeing and with a cabin of young guys. We had a lot of fun, and would never have made campers unpack chairs for hours. Camping was fun, singing songs, fires on the beach, games and so on. Without a doubt bad apples can creep into any barrel, but the rest of the apples are sweet!

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