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12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 0 replies · +3 points

In many ways your statement is moronic. By your logic, we should all be respectful of the KKK and the fine folks at Westboro Baptist. It sounds like would recommend that we should show some tolerance for the merry pranksters of Westboro Baptist, after they have the right to uphold their beliefs.

The think you truly don't get is that everyone has every right to voice their opinion about the Boy Scouts just as much as the Boy Scouts have the right to their opinion. I always find it beyond hilarious that when someone is highlighted as engaging in discrimination, their first reaction is to always cry that they are being discriminated against. Apparently, discrimination is only okay when you are doing the discriminating.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 1 reply · +1 points

Hitler was never a self-proclaimed atheist, it is sad that you would attempt to portray him as such. The guy was a distorted Catholic.

As to Jobs, I will stick with his authorized biography penned by Walter Isaacson, Jobs did not firmly believe in an afterlife or a particular deity, which, may make him closer to an agnostic but he was not a theist. As well, please learn a little bit more about Buddhism, there is some variance within the cult but a belief in a supreme and sentient deity is not necessarily a part of the religion.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 0 replies · +1 points

Exactly, money is too fungible. As well, the morons at United Way caved into the Catholic Church years ago so I quit giving to them entirely. I now fund organizations directly, they get a bigger cut that way. It just doesn't make sense to fund an over-paid middle-man bundler of money.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 0 replies · +3 points

And then watch themselves dwindle and fade away into obscurity.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 0 replies · +2 points

I get pretty tired of the "Pilgrims came here for religious freedom" garbage. Indeed, they came here so they could practice their cult and exclude all others. It always seems to go that route with religious folks for some odd reason. In Virginia, the fine C of E folks were real pranksters and used to arrest Baptists preaching without a license. Of course, this is why Jefferson got involved and wrote the first real law guaranteeing true religious freedom, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. One of the key provisions of this law was that the citizenry would no longer be taxed and made to support the local Episcopals. This sent Patrick Henry into a fit though, it seems that all this talk about religious freedom only applied if you were practicing and supporting his church. Of course, this all ultimately led to the 1st Amendment, the one law that finally kicked religion to the curb when it comes to governing, without it it would probably still look like 1820 outside.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 1 reply · +1 points

My wife and I faced the modern dilemma of those who want their children to have great outdoor experiences but didn't want them exposed to what has evolved into a quasi-religious discriminatory organization. I was in the Boy Scouts as a young man back in the early 60s and we had a great time, religion was not even on the radar back then. Now, they insist that one profess a belief in a some form of god or another, hardly necessary when teaching citizenship or outdoor skills.

So, because we just didn't feel we could throw my son into an organization that represented antiquated thinking, we increased the number of family outdoor activities such as camping trips and backpacks. Consequently my son became so enamored of the outdoors he went to Humboldt (the best outdoor education college) to get a degree that would qualify him to be a National Park Ranger and is now pursuing that path. I guess he spent too much time admiring the NPS hats or something. The point is that a family can create the same type of experiences without having to toss their kid in some group-think environment.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 0 replies · +1 points

The issue really isn't about what they do or don't do, they are a private organization and are legally entitled to do as they will. The important thing is that they no longer receive any taxpayer support of any nature, it just would not be ethical to force gays and atheists to pay taxes that would be used to support an organization that would reject them simply for being gay or an atheist. As long as they are cut off from the feeding at the public trough, I could care less what they do.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 0 replies · +2 points

I don't know about crying "fowl", invoking ducks and geese seems to be pointless. However, if hearing "God's Truth" is kryptonite, then I guess I am immune, the stuff provides me only the occasional giggle. By the way, when you start talking "abominations", you can bet that most readers roll their eyes.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 3 replies · +1 points

Good grief! The Christian Taliban appears to have no decency. Hitler was not an atheist. If anything he was some odd derivation of Roman Catholicism and some oddball self-developed hocus-pocus theology.

Try and do some research and perhaps even try to honor the truth a bit.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Boy Scouts reaffirm ba... · 2 replies · +3 points

Should you choose to call someone a dolt, it would go so much better if the facts were on your side.

In fact, the Boy Scouts were originally started to be independent of any religion or sect, spirituality was encouraged but, by no means whatsoever, was the BSA founded as a Christian organization. It has been the later Christian zealots who have polluted this organization. You can look all this up you know.

Please be a little better informed next time you step to the plate.

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