Atheist Camp

This sort of thing sounds like a terrible idea. Even as a non-believer myself, I'd never send kinds of mine to such a place - what do people like us need to get all worked up about our kids' faith (or lack thereof) for? I don't know about the Maledictorian , but I did just fine at regular summer camp. Over the years I went to ranch camp, sailing camp, even a week one summer at YMCA surf camp, and the man upstairs never came up. Apparently, all the C in YMCA stands for is "no swearing."

In the end, I didn't need to have dinner surrounded by portraits of notable atheists, and I suspect I would not have taken kindly to Bertrand Russell staring me down as I ate overcooked spaghetti. God is the ultimate authority figure and we won't banish Him by indoctrinating children. Heck, sent to this camp I might have come out a believer, if only out of spite. Instead, my spiritual outlook developed under a kind of benign neglect. It seems to me that if it's terribly important to teach one's children that it's okay not to believe in God the way to do it is to show them how a life lived with any mention of the divine simply omitted works just fine.