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I wonder if boy scouts encourage anything in him.
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CRILLLLLY!!!
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Iâm guessing that your astute comment didnât exactly get a Matthews 21:16-inspired response?
If âArchibishopâ is not a word, it should be.
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Out of curiosity(and since you seem like youâd know; unlike my âI was a cub scout for a year, maybe two?â level of experience); where is Team Scouting with respect to their original pretty creepy connection to Preparing the Nationâs Manhood for Splendid War?
As noted, my contemporary experience is basically zero; but, largely by happenstance, I ended up taking a class that had a substantial chunk of Sir Robert Baden-Powell; and at least in his day, by virtue of his background(and with a little assistance from the outbreak of WWI) âscoutingâ was a lot closer to ROTC than it was to accumulating merit badges. Iâd be interested to know how much of that has survived, and how much of that was basically an artifact of the fact that just about everything starts to look like military training when you are on a total war footing.
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As quoth Tom Lehrer:
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Yes, Catholic girls were completely pure and innocent before the Girl Scouts came along. I guess the Girl Scouts are like that rebellious older boy with the leather jacket and cigarette pack rolled in his shirt sleeve-- way to make the Girl Scouts cool again, Bishop!
dunno, is wine part of the leather jacket/cigarette pack archetype?
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They encourage Gluttony in me, which is one of the seven deadlies. Tasty, tasty sin.
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Apparently there was once an English aristocrat who had his own private church in the grounds of his estate. The prayer books had been heavily excised on these lines:
Holy, holy, holy Lord God almightyâŚâŚwith all the pompous and boastful words removed. Because the aristocrat hated flummery and was convinced that God, who was a gentleman, would hate it too.
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Itâs my personal, atheistic opinion that you can tell a bullshit religion by how much it focuses on trivia. Girl scout cookies, masturbation, swearing, etc. I call bullshit.
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Iâm pretty sure Baden-Powell was a closet homosexual (which I donât hold to his discredit, of course) but one interesting thing is that he envisaged Scouting as a way of breaking down class and ethnic barriers. Aristocratic gay men of the time were often attracted to working class men, and the Army was one way in which this desire could be satisfied.
Sadly my own experience of the Boy Scouts was terminated abruptly when I worked out that the deputy scoutmaster was a paedophile but nobody else wanted to know (this was the 1960s). Blame my grandfather for teaching me the facts of life they didnât teach in school because he felt it was better I know about these things ( and could be left to roam NW London safely) rather than be confined to his house during visits.
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Mmmm⌠Do-SIN-dos.
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Though he wouldnât put it in precisely those words, I rather think the present Pope agrees with you.
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Anyone that sees this list as anything other than a recipe for a great afternoon is out of my church, thatâs for sure.
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Thank you for also recognizing Bishop Brennan. Canât get enough Father Ted in my life.
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Are you a Ranter too?
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News flash⌠aged white guy says something outrageous in a public form to gain attention to his waning voice and influence in the community. Doesnât realize heâs actually causing the acceleration of humans leaving the church.
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