Comments on: Camp Quest Texas ANNOUNCED at the Texas Freethought Convention http://atheists.org/blog/2009/11/23/camp-quest-texas-announced-at-the-texas-freethough-convention A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:05:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris B http://atheists.org/blog/2009/11/23/camp-quest-texas-announced-at-the-texas-freethough-convention/comment-page-1#comment-111382 Chris B Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:13:25 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=2066#comment-111382 And the meaning of your life that you learned at church camp is... to please god? Let's hope that (a) god exists AND has some strange interest in ensuring there is no evidence in logic or the physical universe for its existence, (b) you were born into the right religion, (c) that the subset of humans whose opinions about the proper way to please god you have thoughtlessly copied happen to be the correct opinions, and the other 90% of the world is wrong, and (d) that you don't waste too much of your life and resources to the unlikely chance that all this is true or to dime-a-dozen crackpot internet conspiracy theories that some people just put out there for fun and profit to see how gullible people are. And the meaning of your life that you learned at church camp is… to please god?

Let’s hope that (a) god exists AND has some strange interest in ensuring there is no evidence in logic or the physical universe for its existence, (b) you were born into the right religion, (c) that the subset of humans whose opinions about the proper way to please god you have thoughtlessly copied happen to be the correct opinions, and the other 90% of the world is wrong, and (d) that you don’t waste too much of your life and resources to the unlikely chance that all this is true or to dime-a-dozen crackpot internet conspiracy theories that some people just put out there for fun and profit to see how gullible people are.

]]> By: Chris B http://atheists.org/blog/2009/11/23/camp-quest-texas-announced-at-the-texas-freethough-convention/comment-page-1#comment-111381 Chris B Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:01:15 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=2066#comment-111381 This is the kind of grassroots effort that is really building the atheist movement. No, it doesn't get the comments/attention that flashy books, protests, lawsuits, etc. get, but it's our future. Congratulations y'all, and excellent work! This is the kind of grassroots effort that is really building the atheist movement. No, it doesn’t get the comments/attention that flashy books, protests, lawsuits, etc. get, but it’s our future. Congratulations y’all, and excellent work!

]]> By: jcc http://atheists.org/blog/2009/11/23/camp-quest-texas-announced-at-the-texas-freethough-convention/comment-page-1#comment-111349 jcc Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:19:28 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=2066#comment-111349 We can only pray to someday see Algore behind bars for his "inconvenient" lies: http://tinyurl.com/yk4o7zz We can only pray to someday see Algore behind bars for his “inconvenient” lies: http://tinyurl.com/yk4o7zz

]]> By: jcc http://atheists.org/blog/2009/11/23/camp-quest-texas-announced-at-the-texas-freethough-convention/comment-page-1#comment-111340 jcc Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:59:43 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=2066#comment-111340 Given that this is another brain-dead thread topic (according to the title, atheists in Texas are apparently "Free<i><b>though</b></i>ers") and the fact that Silverman, like the rest of the state-controlled, drive-by media, continue to ignore the greatest scandal in modern science: http://tinyurl.com/yhx9juw What a great opportunity to hijack it and put it on the radar so atheists can at least be <i>partially</i> enlightened about it. First "anthropogenic" global warming, next: Darwinian evolution. Though I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see the counselors squirm and give the usual humanist, pap answers to the young skulls full of mush when they ask first-order questions like: what is the meaning of life?--and why am I here?--while sitting around the campfire at Camp Quest<i>less</i>. Given that this is another brain-dead thread topic (according to the title, atheists in Texas are apparently “Freethoughers”) and the fact that Silverman, like the rest of the state-controlled, drive-by media, continue to ignore the greatest scandal in modern science: http://tinyurl.com/yhx9juw

What a great opportunity to hijack it and put it on the radar so atheists can at least be partially enlightened about it.

First “anthropogenic” global warming, next: Darwinian evolution.

Though I’d love to be a fly on the wall to see the counselors squirm and give the usual humanist, pap answers to the young skulls full of mush when they ask first-order questions like: what is the meaning of life?–and why am I here?–while sitting around the campfire at Camp Questless.

]]> By: joe zamecki http://atheists.org/blog/2009/11/23/camp-quest-texas-announced-at-the-texas-freethough-convention/comment-page-1#comment-111308 joe zamecki Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:12:41 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=2066#comment-111308 Thanks for posting this, Dave! :o) Thanks for posting this, Dave! :o )

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