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Boy 11(atheist) banned from Scouts

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    #92
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    ... I don't think there's a Falcon organisation in Ireland, though.
    There Falcon well is. It's in the Falcon North.


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    #93
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,167 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    mathepac wrote: »
    There Falcon well is. It's in the Falcon North.
    Well, Falc me! I never Falcon knew that!


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    #94
    MrPudding
    Registered Users Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    A petition for those interested:

    http://www.change.org/petitions/the-uk-scout-association-open-up-scouting-to-non-believers

    This interesting passage was in today's newsletter form the NSS
    The National Secular Society wrote:
    Despite different variations of the oath being used to accommodate those of other faiths, the Scouts refuse to allow a secular variation to be used. An alternative promise, known as the "Outlander Oath", believed to have been written by Scouts founder Baden-Powell, was intended for those who, for reasons of conscience, could not recognize a "duty to God" and did not worship a deity. It omitted any reference to God or a monarch and, according to scout leaders, was in use as late as the 1990s.

    I have not had a chance to look into it yet.

    MrP


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