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.
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
