Atheists say they're all right without religion

IndyStar ^ | November 9, 2003 | Y-Press

[yonif]

Summer camp usually includes swimming, horseback riding, canoeing and other physical activities. But Camp Quest, a "secular humanist" camp for atheist youths in Overpeck, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati, offers something more.

Every year, Camp Quest's director issues a challenge to campers: Find the unicorns. He tells campers "unicorns" are invisible. They are silent, leave no tracks or traces, and you can walk right through them. If you can prove they exist, you win $100.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Atheists say they're all right without religion

Really. I will give them $100 if they can prove that a country like the U.S.A. would exist without religion...JFK

[yonif]

Check out who is writing this article. Some kids from an Antheist Summer Camp.

[Guillermo]

It amuses me to no end how atheists are absolutely obsessed with believers.

Go amongst a group of them, and invariably they will be bashing those who believe in God (Usually Christians).

On the other hand, I don't see many Christians obsessing over atheists.

Oh well, it's a free country.

[TrueBeliever9]

Abundant Life is not about religion - it is about a relationship with Abba Father. And to have relationship one must be "obedient" to His Law/His Word! The LORD God wants obedience above sacrifice!

[Holly_P]

If you can't see, touch, taste, feel or hear something, its existence or nonexistence can't be proved.

I can't touch, taste, feel or hear air either but I have faith that it exists.

[Guillermo]

Sofia's family celebrates Isaac Newton's birthday.

Isaac Newton was hardly an atheist.

[lelio]

On the other hand, I don't see many Christians obsessing over atheists.

Haven't been on FR much?

[anniegetyourgun]

"This longstanding Camp Quest challenge is also used as a metaphor for God: If you can't see, touch, taste, feel or hear something, its existence or nonexistence can't be proved."

Example: Hope.

[clamper1797]

On the other hand, I don't see many Christians obsessing over atheists.

Oh ... then you're not looking very hard ...

[anniegetyourgun]

They probably withhold the fact of his strong Christian faith from her. Wouldn't want to influence her in her decision-making, ya' know....

[lelio]

I can't touch, taste, feel or hear air either but I have faith that it exists.

Come on, you have "faith" that air exists? There's no empirical evidence at all that there's air? It just exists because you think it does?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Atheists don't have a prayer.

[StatesEnemy]

Every year, Camp Quest's director issues a challenge to campers: Find the unicorns. He tells campers "unicorns" are invisible. They are silent, leave no tracks or traces, and you can walk right through them. So are magnetic fields.

Atheism isn't an enlightened position, it is one born of arrogance.

Now, Agnostics I can at least respect...

[Guillermo]

I've been going to church pretty regularly for over 4 years now, and I've never heard them mentioned.

I've been to several camp-meetings, youth services, district conferences, etc. and I've never heard them mentioned.

I've heard on the radio several sermons by Billy Graham, Charles Stanley and others and I've never heard them mentioned.

I've read several editorials by Chuck Colson, James Dobson, Cal Thomas and other and I've never seen them mentioned.

Maybe I am looking in the wrong place.

[inkling]

Every year, Camp Quest's director issues a challenge to campers: Find the unicorns. He tells campers "unicorns" are invisible. They are silent, leave no tracks or traces, and you can walk right through them. If you can prove they exist, you win $100.

This longstanding Camp Quest challenge is also used as a metaphor for God: If you can't see, touch, taste, feel or hear something, its existence or nonexistence can't be proved.

Why are so many atheists obsessed with a "non-existent" being? That would be like me spending my every waking hour trying to convince people the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. If someone don't believe in God, fine. But why are they so worried about justifying their disbelief to others?

For better or worse, atheists seem to spend more time thinking about God than many believers do.

"We are all free thinkers," Sofia said.

In other words, free to believe in anything as long as it strictly conforms to atheist dogma.

[yonif]

This may interest you....

[Puppage]

Atheists say they're all right without religion

Fine. But, leave MINE ALONE! Don't come into the classroom & take God out. Leave God IN the Pledge of Allegience. You're happy WITHOUT it...IAM HAPPY WITH IT.

[semaj]

This article is so full of idiocy that I don't know where to start...Must get to kitchen...reaching for aspirin...oh no...reaching for the light...slipping into unconciousness...

[Guillermo]

I've been on here a whole lot longer than you, and while I've seen people going back and forth on evolution threads, I have rarely seen Christians obsessing over atheists on let's say a prayer thread...

Point it out to me, if it exists.