Why can't kids just go to a summer camp to hike and swim and sing songs and just be kids? Why does it have to have an ulterior motive dragged into it by adults with an agenda?
Dawkins is lying when he says this isn't a 'response' to religious camps. If you call it an atheist camp, you are preloading.
If they wanted to call it 'debate camp', that might be more palatable.
I am uncomfortable with the move to hitch science to the wagon of anti-deism. Science that's bent towards the motives of political thought gets perverted, as we've seen in the cases of scientists that whore themselves out to heavy industry to 'disprove' the negative effects of their operations.
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