UK: Camp Quest! The Godless Alternative for summer camps for kids!

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/summertime-camps-boom-the-godless-alternative-for-nonbelievers-1675815.html

Summertime camps boom: The 'Godless alternative' for non-believers

Even atheists are joining the rush to take the American way and pack off the kids for fresh air holidays. Jerome Taylor reports

Atheists have become the latest group to cash in on Britain's booming summer camp industry by creating the country's first-ever retreat for irreligious children. Billed as a "godless alternative" to traditional religious summer camps, the five-day retreat is being hosted by Camp Quest, an American organisation which uses the advertising slogan "Beyond Belief" and has a growing following in the States.


The existence of a humanist summer camp where religion is approached in a critical and rational manner adds to a growing pantheon of US-style holiday getaways in Britain ranging from evangelical Bible schools to fat camps for obese teenagers.

Camp Quest was founded in 1996 as an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which insists on members signing a "Declaration of Religious Belief". In response Camp Quest set up an alternative summer camp for the children of "atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and all those who embrace a naturalistic rather than supernatural world view".

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1. You will be glad to know...

FLASH (Florida Atheists and Secular Humanists) the successor to Atheists of Broward County, (which you originally alerted me to,) is co-sponsoring the first winter time Camp Quest here in Broward. It should kick off here winter break 2009. :hi:

--imm

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2. There's a Camp Quest over near the Smokies, I believe

I'd like to volunteer for that, even for just a few days.
I think it would be so so refreshing from the same old-same old!