Rant alert - religion and scouts

[isihac]

The boy's teacher was handing out leaflets yesterday about the local Beaver (junior Scouts) group. While this isn't applicable for his class yet as the lowest age you can join is 6, he seemed excited by the idea so I thought I'd check if things had moved on since I was a young Brownie

Comments

[redatt]

I don't know what to make of that. I don't like it.

Though I suppose one could say that Dharma is one's highest ethical standard -- the standard on strives to live up to.

[happydisciple]

As far as I can tell, scouting organisations affiliated with the WAGGGS/WOSM are required[1] to have the religious reference in the Promise, with only a limited number of countries exempt from that (not the UK, but Belgium & the Netherlands are, f'rex).

[1] Although there are mentions here & there of the "Outlander Promise" that LBP himself came up with, omitting any reference to king or god.

[weirdwombat]

At least they're not specifying 'The Christain God' only. They've moved on a little since my brother's and my involvement with the Scouting movement. We were expected to attend church services, especially Parade Sunday, once a month, where some of us carried the groups and church flags through the church.
Then again my family attended church anyway and I'd always gone to Sunday school etc, so it didn't seem strange. I was fairly religious as a child/teenager *rolls eyes*
I remember the only arguement in our household was when my brother wanted to join the boys brigaid or cadets instead of the scouts and my parents wouldn't let him because they disapproved of the military link/atmos.
I enjoyed Brownies,( as much as my social anxieties/solitary nature allowed). But didn't stay very long in Guides, as we had a really rubbish group who never did anything very exciting, plus by that point our family had stopped going to church, so there were less social links.