Posted on 07/28/2009 8:55:00 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
Camp Quest UK, which is being held near Bath, offers 24 places.
Its website claims the camp is for the children of 'atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and all those who embrace a naturalistic rather than supernatural world view.'
There are currently six branches of Camp Quest operating in North America.
Organisers said the purpose of the camp was to encourage critical thinking and provide children with a summer camp "free of religious dogma".
The camp, supported by scientist Richard Dawkins, plans to expand after receiving hundreds of inquiries. The event has been set up by Samantha Stein, a postgraduate psychology student from London.
"It is not about changing what they think, but the way that they think," she said. "There is very little that attacks religion, we are not a rival to religious camps. We exist as a secular alternative open to children from parents of all faiths and none.
"We aim to provide summer camping holidays and trips that focus on our children's needs - physical and mental activity, and a lot of fun.
"Our enthusiastic and knowledgeable counsellors will lead the children on a variety of activities which could concern anything from critical thinking and logical fallacies, to the scientific method and pseudoscience, philosophy, ethics, famous freethinkers and world religions."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
As long as the government ain’t paying for it, then let them do whatever they want to do on their own time and dime.
In heaven, there are no atheists.
So true!
These people are truly messed up and must be suffering from a vicious inferiority complex. You want to go to a camp free of any religious reference? Pick any camp that focuses on any topic! Archery, dance, wrestling, equestrian, you won’t find God mentioned at all at any of these! These fools are a new religion of themselves, they’re just too blind to see it.
Sure there is. Just because they pretend he's not there, doesn't make it so.
Just like Democrats and reality.
These people are truly messed up and must be suffering from a vicious inferiority complex. You want to go to a camp free of any religious reference? Pick any camp that focuses on any topic! Archery, dance, wrestling, equestrian, you won’t find God mentioned at all at any of these! These fools are a new religion of themselves, they’re just too blind to see it.
(At Camp Quest,'There is no God')
I guess if you had inserted "..." for the words you omitted in your parenthetical item in the title, it would have been almost as misleading as simply dropping the words out. I was going to point out how duplicitous the statement about the camp being "free of dogma" given its dogmatic statement of "there is no god", but then I discovered I had been misled.
Telling a kid they “can’t” begs them to prove they “can”.
I believe a powerful work of God may come from this.
Lord... it is Your Creation they mock. Please lift the
veil from these innocents and allow them to see that
YOU ARE GOD and they are not.
In Jesus name... Jo.
touche!!!!!
I suspect these fools have a religion, probably “global warming”, saving “mother” Earth.
Well..., it’s one thing that these adult atheists are determined to go to Hell (literally...). BUT, they seem determined to make their own kids go to Hell, also.
Those who practice evil are determined to get others to join in with them to practice evil, too...
What a counterproductive, ungrateful waste of oxygen Richard Dawkins is...
My apologies if I made that confusing.
Welcome to Camp Quest!
Here, you’ll learn that there is really no meaning to life, that you’re simply the result of a chain reaction in some primordial soup millions of years ago, and that once you die, all that will be left of you is a dead, decaying body.
Now, go enjoy camp!
"Now I lay me down to sleep,"
"And if I die before I wake,"
"That all folks"
Amen.
Almighty Father, You have made Your Name known, and will make It known again. Please work powerfully in these camps - in the hearts of adults and children alike - so that all may acknowledge that they are the work of Your loving hands.
+ We ask this in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord + Amen.
No problem. I expect that kind of stuff from liberals but hold conservatives to a higher standard.
What was confusing? I had no trouble understanding the story.
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