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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp"  Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:34 am |
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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp" Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:45 am |
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Tim wrote: GIVE Richard Dawkins a child for a week’s summer camp and he will try to give you an atheist for life. The author of The God Delusion is helping to launch Britain’s first summer retreat for non-believers, where children will have lessons in evolution and sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine. The five-day camp in Somerset (motto: “It’s beyond belief”) is for children aged eight to 17 and will rival traditional faith-based breaks run by the Scouts and church groups. Budding atheists will be given lessons to arm themselves in the ways of rational scepticism. There will be sessions in moral philosophy and evolutionary biology along with more conventional pursuits such as trekking and tug-of-war. There will also be a £10 prize for the child who can disprove the existence of the mythical unicorn. Instead of singing Kumbiya and other campfire favourites, they will sit around the embers belting out “Imagine there’s no heaven . . . and no religion too”. Dawkins, who is subsidising the camp, said it was designed to “encourage children to think for themselves, sceptically and rationally”. All 24 places at the retreat, which runs from July 27-31, have been taken. Afternoons will be filled with familiar camp activities such as canoeing and swimming but the mornings will be spent debunking phenomena such as crop circles and telepathy. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 591236.eceI thought "Hmm...it's unlike him to get into the papers with something like this and then not trash creationism in one go." Then I realized it wasn't Ry. (I misread and mixed up names)
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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp" Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:03 pm |
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Atheist summer camp? Sounds like fun. Where do I sign up?
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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp" Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:00 pm |
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I think studying science already starts you with the basics that magic isn't real and religion is crap. A science camp is cool. Well not cool, but fun if you're a smart kid.
But a camp to bash of religion is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.
It's like saying hey did you know that Harry Potter isn't really real? No shit.
Just even entertaining that kind of thing with argument elevates the position you are arguing with.
Religion is so ridiculous that it doesn't really warrant "debate" they just need to be told what is and is backed by empirical evidence and then the metal people who hold on to creationism etc should just be laughed at in the face the same way they would be if they tried to pull that bullshit in a university.
Religion is crap that's a self evident fact to any free thinker. What needs to be explained or attacked in an "atheist camp" would be the evils of religious institutions and their connections to war making and war profiteering.
I think you would even have some religious people agreeing with that. Because face it. Morons that believe in angels or unicorns aren't really harming anyone just by believing childish stupid shit. If they wanna worship a tree in their yard then so be it. The problem is not with belief or even gullibility. The problem is when those cultist organize and raise money for causes like war.
Break religion away from politics after that let them sing and eat brownies and talk about their invisible friends who cares.
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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp" Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:35 pm |
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Nah religion is fucked up, it should go. It's mental slavery.
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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp" Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:25 am |
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Yes it's mental slavery but the only cure is a self cure. No one can reason some one out of something that they were not reasoned into. It's like giving medicine to the dead.
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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp" Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:30 pm |
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I think it sucks for those kids whose parents are fanatics. And a person should be an atheist because it's rational not because they are rebelling against their parents.
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Post subject: Re: Dawkins sets up first ever "Atheist summer camp" Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:13 pm |
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Ry wrote: I think it sucks for those kids whose parents are fanatics. That's what I mean. It's like a mild form of child abuse. One example comes to my mind is the singer/guitarist of the band Sublime Brad Nowell. His mom was and probably still is a born again Christian who would talk about 'end times' all the time and people close to him said it freaked him out a lot. And he ended up on heroin and died from it. It could have been a contributing factor in what motivated him to become a drug addict because he was basically isolated from her because she was probably like a cult member in her behavior. And they say that most addicts have underlying issues that motivates their behavior. I do think that there's a spiritual element to life, not sure how to define it, so I don't really consider myself an atheist but I disagree entirely with programming and mind control which is basically what religion is.
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