Some religious organisations are using trans panic as a wedge against the girl scouts and while I’m sure they’re entirely sincere in their hatred of trans women/girls, I think the more serious issue for them is that the Girl Scouts might be succeeding in empowering the future leaders of tomorrow. And those leaders will have girl cooties.
This just makes (vegan!!) thin mints all the sweeter.
In our den, I tell the parents the religious achievement is something they can do on their own. I think at the local level, it isn’t as strict, but I think it is kind of a don’t ask/don’t tell kind of thing, unfortunately.
Still quite the thing, apparently–even these days.
Perhaps that church dude is simply upset that St. Louisans have upgraded over the years from the local swill of Anheuser-Busch products (yeccchhh!) and brain sandwiches. I sense that eating a lot of bovine brains and other animals’ brains in sandwiches can’t possibly be good for you cumulatively, what with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and all. Meat inspectors probably don’t do that much of a fine-toothed-comb kinda job most of the time anyway, especially if the cow in question was incubating but pre-symptomatic.
The mere fact that all these supposedly all-powerful gods require so much constant attention, adoration, and abject worship kind of seems like a dead giveaway there’s a lot of mortals pulling the marionette strings here. But we mortal believers just don’t notice it because God is so much like us. If God actually acted like an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving God one suspects his behavior would be vastly different.
For one thing, he’d stop genociding us, in whole or in part; not confer favored status to one tribe over another; stop requiring this “sin,” which only appeared on the radar as something to be concerned about with Jesus’ advent, would not be a paradise show-stopper; generally, not demand the adulation/attention/delicacy that seems more appropriate to a temperamental adolescent.
That’s the screed I typically trot out when people kill in the name of their god. If it’s such a powerful god, shouldn’t it be supremely insulted by humans even defending it so vehemently? It’s as if they don’t believe that god exists and can’t take care of its own business.
Eagle Scout here … I’m done having kids and had no sons. I would have had a similar dilemma. Where I was, it was don’t ask don’t tell. If you’re an atheist just keep your mouth shut about it. Kinda at odds with the honesty aspect of scout hood. Be honest, just not about this.
Kicking the girl scouts out of churches … well that’s just plain old crazy.
Jack Klobnak writes in: “I took this pix in the 1970’s. It is on Choteau
Ave. in St. Louis, which was famous in the early 20th Century for Brain
Sandwiches (use a lot of mustard). It was not uncommon for dolts to be
told to take a quarter down to Choteau to get some brains. Sadly, the
building is no longer standing.”
The location appears to have since been completely redeveloped as a hospital.
Good ol’ St. Louis, the city that turned into an armpit because most the white people abandoned it when black people got rights.
Yes … I know it all by memory, like every eagle scout, even though I haven’t spoken the words in close to 30 years. I think you can be reverent without a belief in god – I’ll call that semantics. The oath doesn’t hold back though. Regardless, I was a scout and proud of it … just didn’t drink the kool-aid on the god part.