Mr Bean wrote:I had the opposite, I was a Boy Scout until I was 14, started working towards my Eagle scout status but got kicked out because my Scout Master noticed I always skipped under god when we did the pledge. He called me over from the others and asked if I believed and when I told him no it threw him for a loop.Sea Skimmer wrote:Well that’s how it goes, the Boy Scouts are primarily a local organization, how it works will be governed by the local population and who runs specific troops. The people in charge at the national level really only provide guidance and organization for larger events. It can be as religious or not religious as it wants to be. My troops certainly wasn’t, because about a third of the people were Jewish and one was Muslim with the majority some kind of Christians or Quaker.Alyrium Denryle wrote: I have friends in non-mormon troops where that is the case. In mine growing up, not so much. Mormon troop. Being the non-mormon in the group set me up for some really special levels of persecution.
Two weeks later and the next meeting he had us do the pledge about six times because I left out under god and each time I refused to say it. Then he pretty much confronted me in front of everyone and I repeated my non-belief and he told me there was no room in the scouts for an athesit. He even went so far as to tell the other two Scout leaders in my area so I was done with the scouts from then on because I refused to lie. I had no faith, never had since I was around ten.
And no he's was not a Mormon, he was a Southern Baptist as we met in the basement of a Southern Baptist Church as did the other scout groups.
What a cunt. I used to say "Under Zod" when I was feeling clever or just mouthed the words to the pledge as I find the entire affair creepy. The closest I ever came to getting kicked out was when some dickhole from the senior patrol decided to give one of my patrol members shit (I didn't like the kid, but I'll be damned if some fuckstick is going to talk to one of my people like he was) and I intervened to the point of coming a cunthair away from slugging him. He started screaming "YOU'RE OUT OF SCOUTS!!!" and there was a push, but one of the few times the scoutmaster grew a backbone he defended me.