The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history. The Texas-based organization is announcing at its annual meeting in Florida on Tuesday that it will become Scouting America.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20749204

Another positive step in the right direction for an organization rife with brokenness. There’s a lot I don’t like about the organization, but this is something a love–a scouting organization open to young women and the lgbtq community. The next step is being inclusive of nonreligious agnostic and atheist youth and leaders. As well as ending the cultural appropriation of Native American peoples.

May this organization continue to build up youth, never allow further violence against youth, and make amends for all the wrongs. There’s a lot of good that comes out of organizations like this and I won’t discount it even though it’s riddled with a dark history.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔OPEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    I hear you and applaud the conviction.

    I feel very okay acknowledging myself as my own god and yourself as yours. It’s certainly a reinterpretation, but I’m okay with that for the sake of offering this to my own children. Children hardly know what it means to believe in a god as it is, so I figure why complicate it. I love to teach them what it means to be reverent in a way that is different from the status quo.

    In the end though, my preference is that atheists are permitted as they are. Period. Full stop.

    We can teach reverence without an external deity.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•6 months ago

      Also while it may be true in some parts of the country, I cannot imagine the other volunteers will ban you for something as semantic as the “wrong” religion or a different definition of reverence.