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Captain Bunny · 10-31-2002, 06:41 PM

Confusion riegns in my head right now. Hes 19 won so many awards, and only NOW they find out hes athiest?
I was in the scouts for 2 years, joined aged 14, left aged 16, i made it to patrol leader. I am athiest, and my scoutmaster knew this, infact hardly anyone belived in a God, and noone bothered. We had a prayer at the start of each night, or well not so much a prayer but more like one of us said a little about things that had happened that week, congrats to anyone who had won an award, etc etc
Point is, this guy would have had to do the same, ie say a prayer of some sort, and if he was so strict on his beleif i think people would have noticed him not saying amen, or he would objected it in the first place.
Unless of course that particular scout group hasnt been following the traditions of baden powell who would be turning in his grave at that.
One of my teachers taught us a good lesson about principles one time. It was a class debate about the queen, and god, and peoples beleifs.
To join the police, part of the oath is about working for her majesty the queen, now personally i dont give a shit about the royal family, and said, i wouldnt want to have to say that i liked the queen. He told me that if i was offered a million pounds to say i liked the queen would i do it. of course i said yes, even though i wouldnt mean it.
His point was, that if you have to do or say something to get something you want - your principles can go hang. Standing up for what you beleive in is one thing, but getting your priorities mixed up is quite another.

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Captain Bunny is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,106 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Fife, Scotland	10-31-2002, 06:41 PM Confusion riegns in my head right now. Hes 19 won so many awards, and only NOW they find out hes athiest? I was in the scouts for 2 years, joined aged 14, left aged 16, i made it to patrol leader. I am athiest, and my scoutmaster knew this, infact hardly anyone belived in a God, and noone bothered. We had a prayer at the start of each night, or well not so much a prayer but more like one of us said a little about things that had happened that week, congrats to anyone who had won an award, etc etc Point is, this guy would have had to do the same, ie say a prayer of some sort, and if he was so strict on his beleif i think people would have noticed him not saying amen, or he would objected it in the first place. Unless of course that particular scout group hasnt been following the traditions of baden powell who would be turning in his grave at that. One of my teachers taught us a good lesson about principles one time. It was a class debate about the queen, and god, and peoples beleifs. To join the police, part of the oath is about working for her majesty the queen, now personally i dont give a shit about the royal family, and said, i wouldnt want to have to say that i liked the queen. He told me that if i was offered a million pounds to say i liked the queen would i do it. of course i said yes, even though i wouldnt mean it. His point was, that if you have to do or say something to get something you want - your principles can go hang. Standing up for what you beleive in is one thing, but getting your priorities mixed up is quite another.