All
Lord Baden-Powell was originally an officer in the Boys' Brigade and took a
lot of his ideas from it. However, it was a bit too working class for him
and he wanted an organization where the middle/upper class boys would lead
and the lower classes would be the members. He saw both organizations as a
way of instilling English public school values into the lower classes. Also,
because of the British Empire, Scouting was introduced into a lot of
countries whose religion was not Christian and the rules became that there
had to be some religious affiliation of the troop.
BoW
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Subject: Re: [RR] Baden Powels vision
> Dear John:
> I have no criticism over the intent of Boy Scouts, but I too have had
experience
> with the Scouting program both as a leader and as a boy. If I knew about
Royal
> rangers as a boy it may have spared me a lot of hurt as a young man
growing up
> being in a atmosphere where I may be loved by other boys and have learned
a
> great deal of stuff I was destined to learn IE: camping skills and true
faith in
> Jesus Christ.
>
> I think it was Lord Baden Powels vision for the original Boy Scouts of
England
> to find faith in Jesus Christ and the original American Boy Scouts
probably
> encouraged faith in Christ. The problem I see with Scouting today is that
too
> much political correctness and too much secular humanism has crept into
the
> Scouting program within many councils. It would be wrong for me to say
that the
> entire Scouting program has abandoned Christ. I recall a couple of
incidents
> within our council where mothers took offense about speaking of hunters in
a
> favorable light. If I would have worn my coon skin hat to a scout meeting
I
> would have been at great risk of getting flamed by animal rights activists
from
> within the council.
> It is incidents like these that make me against Scouting in general.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Y'all,
> > Hey there not being rude toward the Boy Scouts okay. However
> > see I used to be in Boy Scouts and yes there were some Christian stuff.
> > However it wasn't a Christian Organzation. We didn't learn much about
God,
> > unless we went to church on Sunday and we had to get permisison from our
> > paretns. As I stated I ain't being rude toward Boy Scouts. There a great
> > organzation, however I wish I knew about RR when I was a child. It would
be
> > lot easy to know about Jesus then through Boy Scouts
> > John
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