(December 12, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote:(December 12, 2018 at 4:00 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: And it's clear you can't even understand what you're reading.
The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts do not identify themselves as a religion.
" loyalty to the religion that expresses them and acceptance of the duties resulting" ...
that means that the Scouts want them to be loyal their THEIR OWN religions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts...troversies
Quote:The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit those who are not willing to subscribe to the BSA's Declaration of Religious Principle, which is usually interpreted as banning atheists
(December 12, 2018 at 4:00 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: You also conveniently didn't answer about Marxism and socialism .... both ideologies.
Because you're no longer talking about the same thing, those are systems of government, not a group of people practicing an ideology. Now I'd make a case that Nazis were part of a religion.
Nope. I'm talking about groups of PEOPLE who believe in in ideology. They may or may not be "systems of government".
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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