Religions > Atheism > In the News: Summer Camp That's a Piece of Heaven for the Children, but Please, No Worshiping
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29 Jun 2005 12:16:49 PM |
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In the News: Summer Camp That's a Piece of Heaven for the Children, but Please, No Worshiping |
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By SUSAN HANSEN
Published: June 29, 2005
HAMILTON, Ohio, June 25 - Fresh from a week at Camp Quest in southern
Ohio, Alex Houseman can boast that his badminton game is a little
better, his archery skills are a little sharper and he can now crank
out tie-dye T-shirts on demand.
All that, and 12-year-old Alex got a rare chance to be around other
children just like him - children whose parents do not go to church or
any other place of worship, and who do not necessarily believe in God.
At the public school he attends in Boone County, Ky., he said, he has
learned to keep quiet about the fact that his family left the
fundamentalist Christian church it used to belong to, that his father
now considers himself an atheist, and that his mother, if she believes
in God at all, does not do so in a conventional way.
At Camp Quest, on the other hand, he was not worried that his fellow
campers would judge him. "It's good to know there are other people out
there who don't believe in God," he said.
Providing a haven for the children of nonbelievers is what Camp Quest
is all about. As the camp's official T-shirt announces, it's a place
that's "beyond belief." More precisely, it claims to be the first
summer sleep-away camp in the country for atheist, agnostic and
secular humanist children.
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Read it at
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/education/29camp.html?8hpib
J. Spaceman
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30 Jun 2005 09:21:56 AM |
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http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
Magic. Four days of not having to get cross with anyone.
David Silverman F.L.A.H.N. aa #2208
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