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Old 28-06-2009, 09:54   #6
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Re: atheists camp for kids

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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