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Sweet rides, but the staff (while fraught with good intentions) don't realize how much evangelical pressure they're putting on young people. No matter what the counselors seem to think, it's completely unacceptable to scare children into believing in Jesus lest they go to hell. It's downright despicable. I went a couple of times as a youth, and loved it at the time. The sermons scared the living crap out of me. Anyhow, the staff mostly means well, are good-hearted people, and seem to genuinely care about young people. It's just the damn evangelical pressure. It's way, way too much. Having talked with a couple hundred people into adulthood who went to this camp (and a number of friends who were counselors), I can only hope that the practices of old have diminished, because they screwed up a lot of people. Do they still keep checklists of how many kids they converted? Because they sure used to.

Mandatory chapel, several times a day. Awesome rides. Threats of eternal hellfire. Ice cream. I don't really care anymore if a camp is religious (I used to), but Qwanoes definitely needed to work on its pedagogy. I hope it's improved since then.