Would you let your DC go to an away summer camp run by a different church/religion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm jewish. I would not let DD go to a camp run by a different religion.

Are you afraid they may learn something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm jewish. I would not let DD go to a camp run by a different religion.

+1 And I do not consider myself very religious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm jewish. I would not let DD go to a camp run by a different religion.

+1 And I do not consider myself very religious.

What are you afraid that your DC will learn?

[Anonymous]

My DC is a vocal atheist. (If someone asked him to pray to god, he'd say "I don't believe there is a god.") I would not send him to a religious camp because it would be inappropriate. Many people send their children to religious camps so they can have an experience that enhances their spiritual life. Now, if he could just go along to get along, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Religion isn't contagious. He's not going to hang out with religious kids doing religious things and suddenly want to come home and convert.

If your child is a kid who can go with the flow, or if your religion is compatible with the camp's religion, I don't see an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm jewish. I would not let DD go to a camp run by a different religion.

+1 And I do not consider myself very religious.

What are you afraid that your DC will learn?

I just don't want my child to feel out of place or different and to have no frame of reference to the religious content of the camp.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would depend on the denomination. I'm an interfaith minister and very open. My kids have been to Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, etc.... churches. There are some specific denominations that I would not be ok with. When my kids were younger, I wouldn't have wanted them in any of the extremely evangelical Christian churches. I would be perfectly fine with a Methodist camp, for example. But, I would not allow my kids to attend a Southern Baptist Camp. I'm ok with differing beliefs. I'm not ok with hate.

Oh, well now aren't you just the paragon of all that is righteous.

OP, to answer your question, I am the opposite of this "interfaith," "open" minister, whatever in the world she expects that to mean.

We are conservative Christians. I would send my kids to most Protestant denomination camps, including Southern Baptist, especially, for the record, when we are visiting family in the south. Their camps (e.g. VBS) are often the most fun because so many kids attend, and they are not afraid to preach the Gospel. On the other hand, I would be very wary of a church that preached watered down values, designed to appeal to the likes of this "minister."

Yeah, OP, case in point. Stay away from the conservative Christian camps where they "preach the Gospel", unless you are also a conservative Christian. You don't want DC coming home talking like PP.

- DP from the interfaith minister

Wow. And you can speak for OP on this how?

[Anonymous]

No. I am not forcefully atheist or anything, really more agnostic. But I grew up in the bible belt and lost a sister to a very conservative cult-like church. Not worth the risk to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It would depend on the denomination. I'm an interfaith minister and very open. My kids have been to Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, etc.... churches. There are some specific denominations that I would not be ok with. When my kids were younger, I wouldn't have wanted them in any of the extremely evangelical Christian churches. I would be perfectly fine with a Methodist camp, for example. But, I would not allow my kids to attend a Southern Baptist Camp. I'm ok with differing beliefs. I'm not ok with hate.

Southern Baptists teach hate?

I grew up in the church. They do.

What do you mean by hate?

When you decide that everyone who doesn't believe like you (i.e. in Jesus Christ as personal lord and savior) is going to burn in hell for eternity, that's hate.

When you kick the Boy Scouts out of your church because they decide to allow gay scouts to participate, that's hate.

When there is an actual debate at the Southern Baptist Convention in the year 2017 over whether or not to denounce the white nationalist movement, that's hate.

When you respond to the Orlando Shootings by suggesting it was "God's wrath for sexual impurity", that's hate.

When you openly preach hate and intolerance towards the Muslim community, that is hate.

I was offered a job teaching in a southern baptist church kindergarten class. I was asked to sign a morality clause promising (among other things) "not to associate with any known homosexual" while employed. That is hate.

....to many examples to list. I'm not suggesting that all Southern Baptists are horrible. I have many family members who attend the SBC. But the church itself is by far one of the most hateful organizations in the country. My kids would never be allowed at a Baptist camp of any kind.

Oh! So, by this logic, you are stating that all Muslims are filled with hate, correct? Because they do believe that Allah is the only Truth and the rest of us apostates are condemned.

Just checking to make sure you are completely consistent in your ..... "thoughts."

[Anonymous]

I was raised Catholic and happily attended camps both at the YMCA (sorta Christian-ish) as well as the local JCC. They were both a blast. Neither was particularly religious except for grace at meals and some songs.

[Anonymous]

I grew up conservative protestant, but am now Catholic. I would send my child to a Christian camp even if it's a sect I don't believe like southern Baptist or something in the same vein, but only if they were young enough not to care (to me that means under 2nd grade) or old enough to understand and discuss differences (depends on the child, I'm guessing maybe 7th grade?). Same for another religious camp, if Christians were allowed. That in between stage, I'd send them if they had friends or family attending, but not on their own. I think it's confusing to be thrown in to a camp situation where everyone is expected to go along with the program, and everyone is assumed to believe the same things when you aren't given the tools to discern what's right for you and your family.

[Anonymous]

Would depend on the religion.

We are Catholic, but I would actually feel more comfortable with child attending a Jewish camp than some "Christian" camps. I don't know if that's something the Jewish camps would be ok with, though. I've never looked into it.

[Anonymous]

I'm in Texas and I agree completely with the previous poster who said she'd (?) send her kid to a Methodist program but not a Southern Baptist one.

I don't want my kid thinking that his non-Christian parents, among many, many others, are going to hell, and somehow I think a Baptist church would be more likely than a Methodist to put such ideas in his head.

[Anonymous]

My Catholic kids went to Jewish preschool and learned Hebrew, etc. NBD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would depend on the denomination. I'm an interfaith minister and very open. My kids have been to Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, etc.... churches. There are some specific denominations that I would not be ok with. When my kids were younger, I wouldn't have wanted them in any of the extremely evangelical Christian churches. I would be perfectly fine with a Methodist camp, for example. But, I would not allow my kids to attend a Southern Baptist Camp. I'm ok with differing beliefs. I'm not ok with hate.

Southern Baptists teach hate?

Yes, yes they do--all the while calling it love. It is twisted and fucked up.

No way would I leave my kids in the hands of evangelicals. Nope.

[Anonymous]

I was asked to give my heart to Christ as a four year old at a southern baptist VBS. Four years old. In no universe is that ok. It is all about church recruitment.