Goodness me, the whole world is unraveling, everything is going to go to hell because girls. Not terribly surprising when it comes to christian thinking, females of any type are always the evil problem to blame.
The American Family Association released a video in which Tim Wildmon and Ed Vitaglino, the AFA’s president and executive vice president, respectively, railed against the news that thousands of girls have joined the Boy Scouts after the organization began admitting them earlier this year.
I went and read the small article about this, and yes, 3,000 girls have joined up. There was a mention of a brother and sister who excitedly joined up, they want to be the first siblings to achieve eagle scout. I don’t think much of boy scouts, but that’s kind of nice, for siblings to be able to be together in such a venture. I’m certainly not seeing the horrible evil which Tim & Ed have conjured up. Perhaps they’ll explain…
“This is, I think, a part of the ongoing war against the Judeo-Christian worldview, the way God has established mankind, male and female,” Vitaglino said, asserting that “the secular progressive … materialistic worldview based in evolution” is waging a “war against God and His divine order.”
Uh, nope. That’s not helping to clarify at all. All girls aren’t going to stop being girls because they joined a scouting organization. All boys aren’t going to stop being boys because they’re now in a co-ed scouting organization. I don’t get at all how this could possibly go against old Jehovah. I have no idea what evolution has to do with anything. It’s not like the scouts were a creationist thing. Let’s see, shall we?
It is a common belief that the BSA does prohibit members who are atheist and agnostic based on its “duty to God” principle and that members (adult and youth) agree with the Declaration of Religious Principle in the bylaws. However, the BSA has had Buddhist troops since 1920 and many Buddhists are atheists or agnostics. The BSA also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Unitarian Universalist Association in 2016 which specifically gives ultimate authority over a participant’s spiritual welfare to the individual Unitarian Universalist congregation. The MOU also specifically includes within Unitarian Universalist chartered troops Humanism as an acceptable form of spirituality as well as Earth-centered religions. [Wikipedia.]
Doesn’t look to me like it’s any sort of made-up war against your pathetic god, gentlemen. Of course, if there’s willful ignorance to be had, you’ll always find it in christians.
“So, you think this is basically satanic?” Wildmon asked.
“This is Romans 1,” Vitaglino responded. “When any individual or community or nation, any culture, ignores God or refuses to honor Him and give Him the glory He deserves, then the Bible makes clear in Romans 1 that they are then given over to a deepening darkness and depravity and, unfortunately, that’s what we’re seeing happen in America.”
Oh FFS, give the satanic panic a fucking rest already. How in the fuckety fuck is an organization going co-ed ignoring a god or refusing honour and glory? I imagine all the christian kids in the boy scouts do all that idiotic shit, and it’s really beyond the pale to consider this as depraved in any way. If anything, this might really help boys and young men to truly understand that girls and young women are people, not objects, and people with ideas and abilities of their own. If this helps in even the smallest of ways to reduce sexism, it will be a very good thing indeed. And christians really need to stop being so bloody hysterical over every little thing.
Strange how all the depravity keeps turning out to be coming from christian conservatives, then.
Yeah, they never want to talk about that though. Guess their depravity is god sanctioned.
What is the divine order, anyway? Chronological? Alphabetical? Likes on YouTube?
Hell if I know. You couldn’t get all the factions of christianity to agree on that order, either. They may as well have screamed “Cooties! Girl Cooties!” because that’s what this is reminiscent of, no matter how you read it.
Huh? I’m not sure how that went from girls scouts to “deepening darkness and depravity”. I’m getting the impression that Christians are making less and less sense.
I think it’s more than an impression, Nightjar. None of it makes any sense. The world is not going to collapse into a black hole over co-ed scouts.
So much drama! They run around like little dogs going yap, yap, yap.
I keep seeing “Ed Vagina-no”.
In a way I’m sorry to see the Boy Scouts admitting girls, because I think the Girl Scouts are a much better organization.
That said, if the BSA had girls in it when I was a sprog, I might have liked it better and stayed in for more than a few months.
Don:
I agree that girl scouts is the better organization, it would be nice to see boy scouts advance and adopt some of the girl scout’s programs. A lot of this has been because girls want the opportunity to make eagle scout, and I don’t see any reason they should be denied that at all.
Like I said in the post, I would hope that girls and boys working together can help to reduce sexist attitudes.
I think you’ve put your finger on the problem right there.