[Stone Mountain]

I didn't make up any quote. The BSA clearly says that they do not admit athiests. Athiesm is a belief system - one you clearly disagree with, but a belief system nonetheless. Therefore, BSA policy does not welcome all beliefs. This shouldn't be hard to understand.

My highest rank was Life Scout, btw, if that matters at all. I'm not quarreling with you about BSA policy - I'm quarreling with you about what your definition of belief is. I don't understand how anyone can say that the BSA welcomes all beliefs when it doesn't welcome athiests.

[nevergore]

As Defined in Encylopedia Brittanica:

Atheism as rejection of religious beliefs from atheism

A central, common core of Judaism, , and is the affirmation of the reality of one, and only one, God. Adherents of these faiths believe that there is a God who created the universe out of nothing ...

No religious beliefs...no admittance to BSA....

NeverGore

[b9]

On a purely practical level,
can you honestly see trying to maintain
a den of healthy rambunctious boys
without them being answerable to a
principle higher than themselves?

Especially as they get older, into the teen years.
The BSA definately has an exclusionary policy ...
it excludes those who do not profess responsibility to a higher authority.

Civilization and progress demands it.