atheists camp for kids
 

Dawkins sets up kids’ camp to groom atheists


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle6591236.ece

well its different but is it a good idea? ie is a bit of God bashing ok at camp..

is it ok for kids to think for themselves.

or is it a bad idea.

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Sounds like a lot of fun!

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Sounds good to me.

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Well if its OK to brain wash kids at God camps then why not brain wash kids at Atheist camps.

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Sounds like a lot of fun for the kids. if my kid wanted to go I'd be quite happy to let them.

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Probably a lot less stressful for them too.

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Interesting!

There are a lot of various different faith camps in places like America, so this is a different slant.
My daughter worked at camp 3 consecutive summers in California, and even though they were not religious camps, there were prayers said at the begining of the day.
She was not offened even though she did and does not believe in God.

I love the idea of children having free will to look into stuff personally and not having a religion forced upon them.
This camp may flip that around and actually try to make children believe there is not a God.
It does encourage thoughts on does God exsist or not, but as we have said on previous threads, maybe it is best to let children decide for themselves at an age when they can, and not have anything drilled in to them of either thought path.

My youngest girl has just flown out to Ibiza today, with her Good News Bible in her handbag, so she can read it on the plane trip. Her friends laugh at her! She is 19, never had my faith pushed into her at all. The Bible she is reading is from my days at a born again Christian church. I respect her for checking things out for herself, like I respect my other two for not.
She says she is not sure if God exsists, and wants to read the Bible so she can become more informed.

In the end, it has to be each to their own, but I find the thought of summer camps that encourage kids to not believe, in my personal opinion not a nice idea, as much as a fully fledged Bible bashing camp would be too!

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A right barrel of laughs.

I can't help thinking this has been a little bit mis-reported. Even Dawkins himself admits he cannot prove there is no God - I don't think he would set up a camp to try to spend a week persuading kids that there isn't one.

I suspect the emphasis will be on the positive benefits of the subjects chosen for teaching, rather than on negative lectures about there being none of this, none of that, none of the other etc.

Even so, I bet I could paint a caricature of the 24 kids that have been signed up for this by their pushy, Guardian-reading parents. And I bet none of them is the most popular kid in their class. :erm:

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/06/15.jpg

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It's not so much about not believing in God. it's about learning to think for yourself, instead of being told what to think or believe.

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What picture would you paint of the other kids that go to the God ones?

I've already read about some kid saying that you will go to hell for going to this camp thing, for not believing in God :(

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In my view, this lack of tolerance is one of the worst aspects of organised religion.

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are you saying children who choose not to believe in God are unpopular in class?- from my memories of school it was in fact the opposite- the bible bashers where treated as weirdos ;)

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I was thinking the same thing Gary

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That in itself should be one of the things taught. you won't go to hell. either because there isn't no hell to go to, or if there is no God. then there can't be a heaven, so there can't be a hell.

Logical :)

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No, I'm saying that children whose parents would send them to philosophy camp in the summer are probably not the most popular children in class. ;)

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ah understood ;)

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Here's my caricature.

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