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Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 5:38 pm
We are watching an organization turn into an anachronism.
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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm
(August 20, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Instead of promising to ‘love God’, Beaver Scouts will have the option to promise to love ‘our world’


Beaver scouts?


Sign me up!

Been there, done that, got my redwings.

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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 6:47 pm
(August 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Been there, done that, got my redwings.
I know you're not talking about shoes bro... Wink Shades
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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 7:03 pm (This post was last modified: August 20, 2014 at 7:04 pm by jesus_wept.)
(August 20, 2014 at 5:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(August 20, 2014 at 4:13 pm)jesus_wept Wrote: Erm, we invented them.

You should have kept them!

We'll take them back if you'll take back the Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, scientologists and all the other crap you Americans have unleashed on the rest of the world.Smile
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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 7:21 pm
(August 20, 2014 at 6:47 pm)ShaMan Wrote:
(August 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Been there, done that, got my redwings.
I know you're not talking about shoes bro... Wink Shades

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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 8:07 pm
How messed up
ALL PRAISE THE ONE TRUE GOD ZALGO


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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 8:15 pm
I was in the scouts when I was around that age (well, I was a cub really but if I'd stuck at it I could've digivolved). I'd estimate that a little over 100% of us could have been described as atheists, since apart from that pledge the notion of gods played no part whatsoever. In fact, as I recall, they were mostly obsessed with playing football, which bored me right out the door.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 8:38 pm
(August 20, 2014 at 7:03 pm)jesus_wept Wrote:
(August 20, 2014 at 5:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You should have kept them!

We'll take them back if you'll take back the Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, scientologists and all the other crap you Americans have unleashed on the rest of the world.Smile

Hey!!

You can't blame the Scientologists on America, they are clearly the Thetans fault!!!!
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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 20, 2014 at 9:14 pm
(August 20, 2014 at 8:38 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:
(August 20, 2014 at 7:03 pm)jesus_wept Wrote: We'll take them back if you'll take back the Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, scientologists and all the other crap you Americans have unleashed on the rest of the world.Smile

Hey!!

You can't blame the Scientologists on America, they are clearly the Thetans fault!!!!

Nope, the blame really lies with Emperor Xenu! Tentacle faced bastard.
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Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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RE: Boy, 11, excluded from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
August 21, 2014 at 7:06 am (This post was last modified: August 21, 2014 at 7:11 am by vodkafan.)
I was in the cub scouts for a little while when I was a kid. I soon got bored and joined the Army Cadets though when I got a little older. Being a cub scout was considered OK but graduating to the Boy Scouts was considered total social suicide around school. I think that accounted for the huge drop out rate. It had a huge image problem. The word "gay" wasn't in wide currency back then but boy scouts were definitely seen as too goody-goody and namby-pamby.
I was bullied in the Army Cadets but I did get to go rifle shooting and camping and messing about on rivers with assault boats and cool shit like that. And the uniform and equipment was loaned free.

Like a lot of organisations started in the 19th or early 20th century, the Boy Scout Movement was always a Christian organisation with mixed philanthropic/religious aims. It probably did a lot of good back then and broadened poor children's horizons and gave them opportunities they would not have had. The world has changed though.
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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