Do you remember before perhaps the 1970’s just about every boy carried a knife ?
In the 1800’s.
In the 1700’s.
Young boys shot guns, carried knives, rode horses, used axes.
The Boy Scouts did not exist then.
And America was not a nanny state then.
Interestingly, today’s Scouts are learning that they can bear arms (”the boys got to bring their knives”, i.e., they were “allowed”) if and only if a higher authority allows them to.
I loved some aspects of Scouting, I have many good memories. I loved camping outside in the winter - you haven’t lived until you’ve functioned as a sled dog in a frozen, muddy February.
However, at the time I was ignorant of the Biblical teaching of the role of the family.
Jesus commended the centurion for understanding His authority in performing miracles. It is biblical to "be under authority" (that's where disciple came from - under discipline of an elder in the Lord). There is a significant difference in a child being under the authority of an older parental authority in order to teach proper use of dangerous implements... and statist control over all human endeavors - to restrict God given rights from use by a responsible and free people so the statists retain control over the unwashed masses. You won't acknowledge there is a difference after I explained it 3 times.
Yes, I grew up in the '60's and 70's. The public high school I went to - you could see probably 2 dozen guns in the gun rack of pickups on any given day in the student lot. TODAY, today, a kid eats a Poptart into the shape of a gun and he gets expelled.
I was introduced to Christ as a young boy by my den mother in Cub Scouts. Most Scout groups are Christian, but they let boys from other faiths participate - knowing the Scouting foundation is Christian.
Now, you may want to argue that the best way to achieve the Christian life is to set up a totally isolated and biblically ordered community. It's been tried before. But, I think the deeds of Christ backs up my belief that it's more evangelically beneficial to reach out to the broader community and show how a Christ-oriented organization provides a better foundation than Godless, statist indoctrination, which seeks to restrict thoughts and actions to their PC-approved notions so the elites retain power.
Well, it's probably a moot point trying to defend the Scouts with this new homo policy. There's probably no way to turn it back with all of the leftist forces pushing relentlessly to sexualize this organization that's chock full of healthy young boys. SICK BASTARTS!