UK to host Summer Camp for atheists


	UK to host Summer Camp for atheists

cakebelly

4-30-2009 11:51 AM

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The organisation has steadily grown in popularity and Camp Quest now holds annual gatherings in five American states and in Ontario, Canada.

The British camp, which will be held in Somerset at the end of July, is the first that Camp Quest has held outside of North America.

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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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