Why the BSA Will Not Admit Atheists Any Time Soon

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6. I took part in the Eagle Scout Ceremonies of at least two atheist Scouts.

I was an atheist Scout Leader. The only troops that really force religion are church-sponsored. Some of the ones sponsored in a more secular manner many drag the kids places, a note from the parents asking that it not happen pretty much does the trick (unless there is no way to accommodate this with safe-scouting rules (which absolutely have to take precedent.)

The whole God rule is so amusingly impossible to enforce. Let me invoke Carl Sagan:

The idea that God is an over-sized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

There is absolutely no reason they can reject that as not being a good-enough belief in God because that would start an organizational holy war over what met purity standards and what did not.