Camp Nonbelief
There's horse camp and piano camp and chess camp and church camp.
Now, there's godless camp.
Minnesota atheists, humanists and free thinkers just finished holding the state's first summer camp for kids who don't believe in God.
At Camp Quest Minnesota, "The Secular Summer Camp," the program was modeled after an Ohio camp for atheist children also called Camp Quest that has been in operation for nine years.
In most ways, the Minnesota program was like a typical summer camp. The kids lived in cabins at the Voyageur Environmental Center near Mound. There was canoeing and campfires, archery and arts and crafts, skits and s'mores. Just no God, please.
Local atheists and humanists created the camp because they wanted to give their kids a sense of belonging in a free-thought community. They thought bringing unbelieving kids together for a week of fresh air and impiousness would counteract feelings of loneliness and isolation in a world many atheists feel is awash in religious and superstitious beliefs.
"I think this camp, unlike all the other camps, will focus on critical thinking and skepticism to fantastic claims and supernatural claims," said August Berkshire, one of the co-founders of the Minnesota camp.
"A vacation from Judeo-Christian culture," said camp director Rick Rohrer.
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I wonder what the atheist version of Kumbaya is for a campfire song?
Randomness is king, accident
Randomness is king, accident
Randomness is king, accident
No lord, accident
Primordial swamp, accident
Primordial swamp, accident
Primordial swamp, accident
No lord, accident
Ex Nihilo nothing, accident
Ex Nihilo nothing, accident
Ex Nihilo nothing, accident
No lord, accident
Cosmic fluke we are, accident
Cosmic fluke we are, accident
Cosmic fluke we are, accident
No lord, accident
Nietzsche - god is dead, accident
Nietzsche - god is dead, accident
Nietzsche - god is dead, accident
No lord, accident
Randian Positivism, accident
Randian Positivism, accident
Randian Positivism, accident
No lord, accident
I think therefore I am, accident
I think therefore I am, accident
I think therefore I am, accident
No lord, accident
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I remember reading about this camp. There are worse things that can be done to a child, but this is right up there.
Might I add:
Sartre - Being and Nothingness, accident
Sartre - Being and Nothingness, accident
Sartre - Being and Nothingness, accident
No lord, accident
As well, I would remove your qualifier from 'unbeliever' and 'godless' camp to camp, and replace atheist children, with children. See how much nicer it sounds! I'm pretty sure you won't agree, but that's ok because my soul, and that of my heathen children, will burn in hell away from the souls of the christian camp children.
If they had good food I might consider it....
Anonymusrex's rationalist brilliance apparently doesn't extend to writing lyrics to match the meter.
As for the camp, I absolutely do not understand this. I mean, what is the point of making "atheistic" something (going to camp) that is by its nature secular -- or certainly not religious by its nature.
When atheism becomes its own church, it is every bit as ridiculous as Madalyn Murray O'Hair thought xtians are.
In fact, Paula Poundstone once did this funny segment on the atheist church she went to -- "every Christmas, we'd play COINCIDENCE ON 34TH STREET"; "for Revival Week, we'd bring guys in wheelchairs onto the stage, and they talk about how ... they're ... still ... crippled."
Good food, good looking counselors, as long as it's not run by a catholic order the kids might be safe.
That's the funniest song parody ever!!!
A vacation from Judeo-Christian civilization.
So he plans to reintroduce paganism or even communism to the camp?
xavier
Xavier -- I would guess the camp would have no infirmary, since that's a Judeo-Christian innovation as well.
This one time, at atheist camp...