Posted on 05/25/2008 5:11:27 PM PDT by inflorida
ALBANY, N.Y. - When Joe Fox sends his daughters away to summer camp, he's confident they will be surrounded by kids who share his family's beliefs and values.
Caitlin, 16, and Elizabeth, 10, go to Camp Quest, which in 1996 created a niche getaway for children who are agnostic, atheist, or just not sure what to believe yet.
American parents have plenty of summer-camp options, from Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to the YMCA, and soccer, dance, music and drama camps. The Camp Quest concept started in 1996 with 20 kids at a site in Ohio with the slogan "Beyond Belief."
Since then, demand has grown; weeklong camps have been added in Minnesota, Michigan, California and Tennessee, and in Ontario, Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
How many of these kids are so “free-thinking” that they’ll never have a single thought of their own?
“Caitlin, 16, and Elizabeth, 10, go to Camp Quest, which in 1996 created a niche getaway for children who are agnostic, atheist, or just not sure what to believe yet.”
Good for them. Much better than attempting to shut down Christian Camps, something I am sure that other atheists have at least thought about doing.
Ya gotta love capitalism!!!!!!!
Of course they don't know what they believe yet, they're only 10 and 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, no, it's not a camp for getting away from religions, it's just an indoctrination into the religion of humanism. How about just dropping the dinner time propaganda?
Oh, don’t you worry, mom and dad, these kids will know what to think by the time they’re back home! And, you might want to check those suitcases for condoms; I’m sure they’re going to be enlightened to the wonders of promiscuity, too!
’ “They’re good, moral kids without organized religion,” Fox said of his daughters. “They can feel comfortable being who they are.” ‘
As opposed to feeling uncomfortable being who they are if they believe in a higher power?
Gee. I remember an article very much like posted to FR last year. (Search doesn’t find it though...) Wonder if it’s recycled?
“Good for them. Much better than attempting to shut down Christian Camps, something I am sure that other atheists have at least thought about doing.”
Good point.
Just what are those "values and beliefs" and upon what foundation are they based?
If these teens want to have unbridled orgies, upon what basis will the staff deny them? Or will the staff deny them?
If these teens want to find the one kid who doesn't fit in and torture them mercilessly all summer, will the staff prevent this? If so,on what basis?
"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. "
Can’t have any forbidden ideas around freethinkers’ children, oh no ... that might endanger their ability to think freely.
This somehow reminded me of an interview a Fox News reporter did with a protester out on the street at the start of the RNC convention in ‘04. The reporter asked the protester, “So, what are you protesting today?” She responded, “I don’t know. They haven’t told me yet.” A “free-thinker” no doubt.
“And, you might want to check those suitcases for condoms; Im sure theyre going to be enlightened to the wonders of promiscuity, too!”
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Right you are. One thing you can depend on is that religious teenagers don’t have sex.
I have heard this camps founder on several radio interviews and he is your typical arrogant, condenscending, “I’m smarter than you” atheist!
Strange. Seems to me there have always been plenty of camps all over the country that fit that description. Ones that don't preach anything at all -- theism, deism, agnosticism, atheism....nada. Just a place for kids to go to have some supervised outdoor fun.
No doubt Joe will beam with pride when his daughters return home after camp to show him how they can stretch condoms over bananas.
I personally find “freethinking”, as used in this article, to be one of the most cynical, Orwellian adjectives in the English language.
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