Post by humphreyclarke on Aug 6, 2009 6:25:35 GMT
Am I alone in finding this hillarious?:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/29/atheist-summer-camp-somerset
The idea behind the camp is to give a "godless" alternative to traditional religious summer camps. In the morning the participants discuss philosophical ideas and learn about subjects such as astronomy. Then in the afternoons they take part in more traditional camp activities. They swim, they run, they climb, they row. In the evening – if the rain relents – they sit round the campfire and toast marshmallows.
So Julia said she really enjoyed the Charles Darwin talk, but also loved scrambling over a great big wall. "But the best thing is that they tell you it doesn't matter what you believe – just believe it and stick with it."
The first Camp Quest took place in the US in 1996. Supported with a modest grant from the Richard Dawkins Foundation, Camp Quest UK has been founded to give the children of "atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and all those who embrace a naturalistic rather than supernatural world view" a summer camp experience not tinged with religion.
I was raised an atheist but I think I would have hated something like this. I mean I would have enjoyed the running, jumping, climbing trees stuff but, jeeze, Philosophy and biology lectures!.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/29/atheist-summer-camp-somerset
The idea behind the camp is to give a "godless" alternative to traditional religious summer camps. In the morning the participants discuss philosophical ideas and learn about subjects such as astronomy. Then in the afternoons they take part in more traditional camp activities. They swim, they run, they climb, they row. In the evening – if the rain relents – they sit round the campfire and toast marshmallows.
So Julia said she really enjoyed the Charles Darwin talk, but also loved scrambling over a great big wall. "But the best thing is that they tell you it doesn't matter what you believe – just believe it and stick with it."
The first Camp Quest took place in the US in 1996. Supported with a modest grant from the Richard Dawkins Foundation, Camp Quest UK has been founded to give the children of "atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and all those who embrace a naturalistic rather than supernatural world view" a summer camp experience not tinged with religion.
I was raised an atheist but I think I would have hated something like this. I mean I would have enjoyed the running, jumping, climbing trees stuff but, jeeze, Philosophy and biology lectures!.
