Posted on 08/26/2009 8:09:07 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Even in the heart of the Bible Belt, Texas isn’t immune to the proliferation of atheistic propaganda, whether in its public schools or now in atheist summer camps.
Camp Quest—with the tagline “It’s beyond belief!”—bills itself as “the first residential summer camp in the history of the United States for the children of Atheists, Freethinkers, Humanists, Brights, or whatever other terms might be applied to those who hold to a naturalistic, not supernatural world view.”[1]
The first UK Camp Quest, which received funding from the Richard Dawkins Foundation and other private donors, launched late July in England, and five other Camp Quest locations have been established in North America.[2]...
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Ping!
Mark 9:42
What - Jonestown II ???
Oh the noesss!!!
Now they’ll miss the exhibit of Jesus burying dinosaur bones in an attempt to trick us.
Why do you have a problem with this, GGG? It is out in the open, totally above board, and, let’s face it, the camp is evangelizing absolutely no one. The parents have already done so, evidenced by them sending their kids to this camp in the first place.
Thanks for the ping!
“Institute for Creation Research”?
LOL.
“Research”?
Really?
Cuz, they’re pretty much relying on ONE BOOK.
I guess they won’t be telling any ghost stories around the campfire.
It has nothing to do with their right to do so...I have a problem with it because that “church” is teaching children to embrace a religion that rejects the God of the Bible, and leads to eternal damnation.
Of course, parents are held responsible for how they raised their children when they stand before God, so. . .
True...they will be talking about how life sprang up from non-life, how intelligence came from non-intelligence, and how mankind discovered the natural selection god, and how Darwin was its prophet.
It just goes to show that people like to teach their children
their own beliefs, and give them more exposure to reinforce those
beliefs.
At least the freethinkers say they will look at evidence.
If they said that Jesus was “lacking” cause he didn’t talk
about womens subjugation...it may give the impression that these
are very biased folks. Of the many things he talked about, the
most important one appears to be about attaining eternal
life by believing in His and His fathers work...and one of the offshoots
of belief in Him and the Father would be to love your neighbor as yourself.
Temple of Darwin summer camp, because 9 month school year is not enough to keep them in unbelief? I doubt it is ‘freethinking’, imagine what happens to kids who question the flaws in evo.
So, I'm guessing you probably have the same problems with a Mormon camp? Or a Hindi one? Perhaps Jewish, too?
The way I see it is that religions people should not attack when reality threatens belief.
What was it that Jesus said on the cross?
Cute, but untrue. Of course you know that. You are just attempting to be clever. Maybe next time.
This has nothing to do with the Temple of Darwin’s right to set up a “church” to promulgate their religion. It’s about alerting the church to a new mission field, while at the same time demonstrating just how far and how fast this country is falling to the forces of evolutionary materialism.
PS This stuff should be brought up in the next court case where the Temple of Darwin tries to pretend that is not a religion.
Riiiight.
Show me that missing rib and we’ll end the “missing link” nonsense.
Holy crap, this article has nothing to do with your made up title ‘...Darwin...” . Evolution never mentioned, or Noah’s Ark either.
More nonsense from you !
For all those kids who have no idea why they're alive. Because they're parents won't tell them.
Free thought as long as you worship the doctrines of Darwin and hate any other thought. Real free there!
I actually think it is a great idea. There will be moments when the individual child will be away from others and able to observe the universe in its splendor. Then they will feel the inevitable tug and wonder.
Wow!
You found a pro-creation article on a pro-creation site!
Daily drivel again.
The camp was originally set up by one of the high priests of the Temple of Darwin, Richard “Darwin’s Lapdog” Dawkins.
Really??? Well then how come they don't mention him in promoting this ‘Darwin Worship’ camp?
To contrast you mention Darwin in every single of your posts, you got a Darwin obsession. You could run the Darwin channel at FR, LOL, “All Darwin all the time”
Please take your contemptuous pontificating somewhere else. The guy you ripped was not saying that everyone should think like him, he was just ripping on these idiot atheist camps, which last time I check is still his right to do so.
As opposed to the pro-evolution articles on the pro-evolution sites? Unfortunately for the Evos, their data is always better interpreted in terms of creation/intelligent design, as God’s creation resists naturalistic explanations. Just think of all the time and money the Evos have spent collecting data that is better interpreted by creation scientists!
So many errors, so little time.
First of all, it's you that calls it a "church" and a "religion". They do not.
Second, "rejects". One can believe in God and evolution simultaneously. Many Christians do.
Third, "God of the Bible". No they may reject YOUR interpretation of just who God is, but they don't have to either reject God or the Bible to do so.
I know you'll find this unbelievable, but your point of view is actually very narrowly held. Many people have actually gone beyond Bishop Usher's 1650 theory of the date of creation.
As far as the polls showing belief in creationism, they never show you the breakdown by race and education for a good reason...
What would be more surprising to you, that Jesus existed when dinos were still alive, or that Jesus actually created the dinos???
Actually, pretty close to half the country believes that God created the world and its inhabitants fully formed and fully functional between six and ten thousand years ago.
Either would be a shocker.
God allowed for the dinosaurs to walk the earth and die out many millions of years before Jesus’ time.
Is it so hard for you to believe that God used evolution as a creation tool?
Did He tell you HOW He created? I doubt it.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201
—and—
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1
OK, creation and John the Baptist.
Your point?
Thank you thank you, and thank you. You post a whole lot but never really say much. But these words tell a story. What exactly did God say HE did? Now I understand your disdain of Rush.
YES those dinos walked this earth multiple of (no man alive can testify with any accuracy to when) millions of years ago before God placed that soul into flesh beings. That fact has absolutely nothing to do with this godless theory of evolution.
John 1:8 He himself (John the Baptist) was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. 10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
In short, Jesus created the world and everything in it, including the dinos.
As far as the polls showing belief in creationism, they never show you the breakdown by race and education for a good reason...
LOL funny!
Let’s start with FR, since so many liberals are on here attacking creationism and pretending the normal majority are in the minority....
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/03/americans_overwhelmingly_suppo.html
Headline: “Americans Overwhelmingly Support Teaching Scientific Challenges to Darwinian Evolution, Zogby Poll Shows” From March 2006.
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=719
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Free Republic Poll on Evolution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1706571/posts?page=63#63
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Creationism makes a comeback in US
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856224/posts
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Teaching creation and evolution in schools
Solid research reveals American beliefs
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v13/i2/teaching.asp
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Survey Finds Support Is Strong For Teaching 2 Origin Theories
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E4D9143BF932A25750C0A9669C8B63
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Public Divided on Origins of Life
http://people-press.org/report/254/religion-a-strength-and-weakness-for-both-parties
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Americans Believe in Jesus, Poll Says (creation poll results included)
http://derekgulbranson.com/2005/01/17/americans-believe-in-jesus/
Let’s not forget that many of the greatest scientists the world has ever known have been...gasp...creationists!
Suupose I make a lasagna.
Eventually via leftovers it reaches the dog.
The dog is told I made lasagna and now it’s his.
Thousands of years later dogs have discovered that “oven”
and “pan” were used. Evidence exists of “ingredients” playing a part.
“HERESY!” cry the creationist dogs. “Humble created the
lasagna, it was told to us and we believe the word!”
Well, I did. Made that lasagna, sure enough.
I just used pan, oven & ingredients to do it.
Which dogs would I laugh at?
The problem for your position is, he not only made the lasagna, he also made and holds together the ingredients that make the lasagna and the pan.
Collosians 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
You miss the point deliberately.
Evolution is a tool for creation. The two are not incompatible.
He told the whole world how He did it. Right here in Genesis....
Gen2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
And ....
Gen 2:19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
He clearly states how He did it and it wasn't through evolution.
Dinosaurs too?
Did He bury fossils to trick us?
Nice straw man GGG, but when that is all you have I guess you have to go with it.
“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life” (Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. 6th edition, 1882. p. 421
I suppose you would never “denigrate” that that POS Kennedy finally took a dirt nap today? Somebody griping about atheist Summer camps for kids will never be a problem with me or most Freepers.
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