Comments on: Another Reason to Sign Your Kids Up for Camp Quest http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/05/12/another-reason-to-sign-your-kids-up-for-camp-quest/ by Hemant Mehta Sun, 27 May 2012 16:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jet http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/05/12/another-reason-to-sign-your-kids-up-for-camp-quest/#comment-164213 Jet Tue, 13 May 2008 18:25:50 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2008/05/12/another-reason-to-sign-your-kids-up-for-camp-quest/#comment-164213 Adults can always volunteer. I'm not just saying this because I'm the volunteer coordinator for Camp Quest MN, but my time counseling last summer was amazing. I was stuck going to confirmation camp growing up, so this was my time resort back to a younger secular self. And the kids are great....and I could go on and on. Adults can always volunteer. I’m not just saying this because I’m the volunteer coordinator for Camp Quest MN, but my time counseling last summer was amazing. I was stuck going to confirmation camp growing up, so this was my time resort back to a younger secular self. And the kids are great….and I could go on and on.

]]> By: KC http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/05/12/another-reason-to-sign-your-kids-up-for-camp-quest/#comment-164201 KC Tue, 13 May 2008 18:05:48 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2008/05/12/another-reason-to-sign-your-kids-up-for-camp-quest/#comment-164201 Two more years and our daughter will be old enough to attend. Perhaps by that time we'll also be living somewhere else as the hubby has finally started to accept that the mandatory religious squawking at the public schools here in Texas is wrong and promotes a hostile environment for us non-theists and our children. Seriously we've found ourselves in not one, but two religious arguments with our five year old daughter in the last week or so because of the shit she's being told at school by her teacher. Two more years and our daughter will be old enough to attend.

Perhaps by that time we’ll also be living somewhere else as the hubby has finally started to accept that the mandatory religious squawking at the public schools here in Texas is wrong and promotes a hostile environment for us non-theists and our children.

Seriously we’ve found ourselves in not one, but two religious arguments with our five year old daughter in the last week or so because of the shit she’s being told at school by her teacher.

]]> By: Jason http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/05/12/another-reason-to-sign-your-kids-up-for-camp-quest/#comment-164089 Jason Tue, 13 May 2008 13:33:59 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2008/05/12/another-reason-to-sign-your-kids-up-for-camp-quest/#comment-164089 It is a shame that arming children with rationality and reason isn't as effective and powerful as the Christian Camps are with their beliefs. I say "powerful" in the contrast of what children at Camp Quest will experience in terms of things to bolster their views, compared to places like Jesus Camp that will ruthlessly hammer doctrine and dogma into the minds of their guests. It isn't a problem with atheism, it is the inherent strength of a stern religious background: People who don't want to think for themselves are prepared to do anything to achieve the goals of the people who tell them that it is in accordance with the religion. This often results in irrationality, ridiculous arguments, fallacious proposals, dishonest debating tactics, ignorance, and at times, violence. It is a shame that arming children with rationality and reason isn’t as effective and powerful as the Christian Camps are with their beliefs. I say “powerful” in the contrast of what children at Camp Quest will experience in terms of things to bolster their views, compared to places like Jesus Camp that will ruthlessly hammer doctrine and dogma into the minds of their guests.

It isn’t a problem with atheism, it is the inherent strength of a stern religious background: People who don’t want to think for themselves are prepared to do anything to achieve the goals of the people who tell them that it is in accordance with the religion. This often results in irrationality, ridiculous arguments, fallacious proposals, dishonest debating tactics, ignorance, and at times, violence.

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