My son turned down the Eagle for that reason. He did the whole schtick, including the project (built a nice new deck for a local school) and then refused to do the final board of review because he said it was discriminatory against atheists and gays.
Weirdly, the BSA doesn’t know enough about religion to actually keep atheists out; for example, they consider Jains theists which is pretty arguable, and Hindus as well, despite there being several atheistic Hindu sects. Basically if you have a religion, they assume you must be a theist :giant eyeroll:
