For context this was 20 something years ago but I was kicked out for refusing to invoke god in the scout oath. Hopefully they quit doing that because it’s such a stupid reason.
Not so stupid if the goal is to train a blindly patriotic paramilitary force. I know we don’t think of it in those terms anymore, but never forget the founder of the movement (Baden-Powell) was not merely a typical bootlicking aristocrat—a baron—but was a general in the war where the British invented the concentration camp.
-“What about atheists?”
For context this was 20 something years ago but I was kicked out for refusing to invoke god in the scout oath. Hopefully they quit doing that because it’s such a stupid reason.
Not so stupid if the goal is to train a blindly patriotic paramilitary force. I know we don’t think of it in those terms anymore, but never forget the founder of the movement (Baden-Powell) was not merely a typical bootlicking aristocrat—a baron—but was a general in the war where the British invented the concentration camp.