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
    212·
    7 months ago

    I’m really sorry to hear this. One shouldn’t have to lie about this, but should be allowed to not practice any particular faith. It’s honestly one of the most frustrating elements for myself among the scouts.

    This is one of the reasons why I have embraced my own magical book about my own magical being of my own making. When conversations inevitably go towards religion, I sometimes like to express my lack of faith by describing my mystical faith in the Cabra Cosmica. Yep, I’ve got mythos down and everything. Ironically, I really enjoy this form of make-believe faith. 😁

    Please allow me to introduce you with a fantastic stained glass depiction: Stained glass depicting the face of the Cabra Cosmica.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      7 months ago

      if you dont want to DIY it the Satanic Temple, Discordianism, Secular Paganism and The Flying Spaghetti monster all “exist.”

    • MacedWindow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      What are the tenets of Cabra? How do you know its real? (I know its not but I love invented faiths)

      • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔OPEnglish
        102·
        7 months ago

        The tenants are very much in kind with those of secular humanism. And the Cabra Cosmica is as real as I wish it to be, which is both simultaneously very real and very not.

        I often give thanks for my good fortune to the Cabra Cosmica as I do the Cosmos itself. I just wish to be thankful towards a thing at times and it can help to personify it. I mean, I did it most of my life to another false deity. Why not any other.

        I know the Cosmos. I exist within it. Science describes it and defines its laws. Sometimes I give it a face. And sometimes that is the Cabra Cosmica.

        A stained glass piece depicting a goat atop a mountain peak looking incredible and cosmic in nature.

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          7 months ago

          I just wish to be thankful towards a thing at times and it can help to personify it.

          That aspect reminds me of the Shinto belief that everyday objects have little spirits in them. I don’t believe in spirits, but I can see how this could be an interesting or useful mental exercise.

          Best of luck with your religion. Have you fought any holy wars yet?

          • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔OPEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            The only holy wars fought thus far involve conflicts over the correct installation of toilet paper rolls. And there is a right way.

            Some things are worth dying for.