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 ...
“In heaven, there are no atheists.”
There are none in hell, either. Because by the time one gets there, one has met and been judged by Almighty God.
Amen! Agreeing with your petition!
Someday we will be listening to a Pastor or a conference
speaker tell the story of how God revealed Himself to
him or her at an “atheist summer camp”. Hallelujah!
Amen
Rather be in hell with all the sinners ever than in heaven with one worshipper of the crucified guy.
This is all part of Dawkins’ tactic of having “society stepping in” to stop religious parents from doing so and his hopes that this “might lead children to choose no religion at all.”
There are good dissections of Camp Quest, its PR side and its true underbelly here:
http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2009/05/atheist-re-education-camp-for-children.html
http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2009/06/atheism-camp-camp-quest-freethought.html
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