Yikes. 5 days? And those prices are per person?!?! Wow. Big family could be out like 1500 pounds for that 5 day sojourn.
Cash cow. The true reason for the Christian getaway.
DJ, the best you can do is treat it as a spy mission of sorts. Ask some tough questions in the little seminars. Keep notes from the lectures, and do a little research, and then the next day, if there is an opportunity, ask some damaging questions.
Talk to girls. Be a thorn. Not a disruption, but a thorn. Make just enough of a ripple so that your parents might hear of it and think twice about taking you to these exploitative "retreats."
But don't think it's not possible to have fun. You're young, enjoy your spring break. Despite the specific flavor of this retreat, there will undoubtedly be people in your same situation. And even if they're not, you can still have fun. The whole trip can't be jam packed with Christian nonsense. Be the guy who laughs at the shitty Christian rock music they play, be the guy who sows little seeds of doubt in people by not being the overt, all the time, no breaks Christian. Be a normal kid and you'll attract the other normal kids who were dragged there by their parents, and you might make some awesome friends.
Cash cow. The true reason for the Christian getaway.
DJ, the best you can do is treat it as a spy mission of sorts. Ask some tough questions in the little seminars. Keep notes from the lectures, and do a little research, and then the next day, if there is an opportunity, ask some damaging questions.
Talk to girls. Be a thorn. Not a disruption, but a thorn. Make just enough of a ripple so that your parents might hear of it and think twice about taking you to these exploitative "retreats."
But don't think it's not possible to have fun. You're young, enjoy your spring break. Despite the specific flavor of this retreat, there will undoubtedly be people in your same situation. And even if they're not, you can still have fun. The whole trip can't be jam packed with Christian nonsense. Be the guy who laughs at the shitty Christian rock music they play, be the guy who sows little seeds of doubt in people by not being the overt, all the time, no breaks Christian. Be a normal kid and you'll attract the other normal kids who were dragged there by their parents, and you might make some awesome friends.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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