Re: Pagan Scouts

In article <Xns9A9A17273837CCYPMNDEXHBCJOIU@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Midwinter
wrote:
> zsars <zsars@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> 
>> <sigh> I didn't mean to start anything.
> 
> Sorry - but it was inevitable.
> 
> 
>> I was being a smart-ass by pointing out that 'multifaith' usually 
>> excludes atheists.
> 
> I think it'd be fairly safe to assume that most people who'd use the
word 
> wouldn't be intending such an exclusion.

Except that the Boy Scouts of American (national organization
leader****p, many of the local leaders have different views) are well
known as being multi-faith and excluding atheists.  Admittedly their
knowledge of faiths other than Christian ones can be rather naive.

As Rick Cronk, President of the BSA stated back in 2006

   "There must be hundreds of Gods out there. God in the oath refers 
   to a supreme being of some sort - it's a moral or ethical or spiritual
   orientation. We don't care if it's Mohammad or Buddha or a rock in 
   Japan. We ask the kids to take the Scout oath and what they do on
   their own time is up to them."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-23-cronk-interview_x.htm


Emma
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