Camp Quest

Camp Quest, founded in 1996, is the first residential summer camp in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Norway specifically for the children of nontheistic or freethinking parents (including atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, skeptics, rationalists, and others who hold a naturalistic worldview). Amanda Metskas is Camp Quest's Executive Director.

Purpose and identity

Camp Quest's mission statement declares that the camp is "dedicated to improving the human condition through rational inquiry, critical and creative thinking, scientific method, self-respect, ethics, competency, democracy, free speech, and the separation of religion and government guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States". The camp intended goal is to offer a space where children who are already nonreligious can feel comfortable and accepted. The UK branch of Camp Quest stated in 2009 that the point of their camp was "not a case of being told what to think about concepts such as God, just how to think" about such concepts.