{"id":6578,"date":"2004-08-09T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/08\/09\/camp-nonbelief\/"},"modified":"2004-08-09T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T18:18:48","slug":"camp-nonbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/08\/camp-nonbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Nonbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">There&#8217;s horse camp and piano camp and chess camp and church camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Now, there&#8217;s godless camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Minnesota atheists, humanists and free thinkers just finished holding the state&#8217;s first summer camp for kids who don&#8217;t believe in God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">At Camp Quest Minnesota, &quot;The Secular Summer Camp,&quot; the program was modeled after an Ohio camp for atheist children also called Camp Quest that has been in operation for nine years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">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&#8217;mores. Just no God, please.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;I think this camp, unlike all the other camps, will focus on critical thinking and skepticism to fantastic claims and supernatural claims,&quot; said August Berkshire, one of the co-founders of the Minnesota camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;A vacation from Judeo-Christian culture,&quot; said camp director Rick Rohrer.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/pioneerpress\/9355971.htm?1c\">Full Story<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I wonder what the atheist version of Kumbaya is for a campfire song?<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Randomness is king, accident<br \/>\nRandomness is king, accident<br \/>\nRandomness is king, accident<br \/>\nNo lord, accident<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Primordial swamp, accident<br \/>\nPrimordial swamp, accident<br \/>\nPrimordial swamp, accident<br \/>\nNo lord, accident<\/p>\n<p>Ex Nihilo nothing, accident<br \/>\nEx Nihilo nothing, accident<br \/>\nEx Nihilo nothing, accident<br \/>\nNo lord, accident<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Cosmic fluke we are, accident<br \/>\nCosmic fluke we are, accident<br \/>\nCosmic fluke we are, accident<br \/>\nNo lord, accident<\/p>\n<p>Nietzsche &#8211; god is dead, accident<br \/>\nNietzsche &#8211; god is dead, accident<br \/>\nNietzsche &#8211; god is dead, accident<br \/>\nNo lord, accident<\/p>\n<p>Randian Positivism,  accident<br \/>\nRandian Positivism, accident<br \/>\nRandian Positivism, accident<br \/>\nNo lord, accident<\/p>\n<p>I think therefore I am, accident<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI think therefore I am, accident<br \/>\nI think therefore I am, accident<br \/>\nNo lord, accident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s horse camp and piano camp and chess camp and church camp. Now, there&#8217;s godless camp. Minnesota atheists, humanists and free thinkers just finished holding the state&#8217;s first summer camp&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}