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Boy Scouts Offending Sensitive Atheists… again

In England, the Boy Scout organization known simply as “Scouts” are under fire again from troubled atheist groups who feel that the long-standing Scout oath discriminates against them. “…to do my duty to God and the Queen”, is the particular line causing the uproar. The European brand of Boy Scouts are more liberal about such matters and have made this line of the Scout oath with an implied, ‘fill in the blank’. The Scout guidelines state:

“The phrase ‘to love God’ and ‘duty to God’ implies belief in a supreme being and the acceptance of divine guidance and therefore the word ‘God’ can be replaced by ‘Allah’, ‘my Dharma’ or others as appropriate to suit the faith or religion of the individual concerned.”

Sounds quite liberal and tolerant, right? Wrong. Atheists claim that they have no one to do their duty to like other religious folks have. Therefore, they are forced to take an oath to a god they do not believe in. Read more about this story here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/31/nscout131.xml

Editorial

Here is a possible solution. In the great liberal-tolerance tradition, they should allow the atheist to pledge their duty to the one they really believe in and worship… themselves. True atheism, which claims that there is no god of any kind, is not void of faith. The belief is in one’s self as the real god. An atheist may not term it that way, but they like being their own god. Not to be confused with a supernatural god, in atheism all is natural and under the governance of the laws of physics and biology; not any kind of creator being. Similar to the US constitution, or the penal code, they just wrote themselves of course. But the real god is one’s own self. The self is the master of one’s own universe. The self creates one’s own life and chooses one’s own path. The self is god.

So how does this sound:

“On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to myself and my Queen (or country in the US).”

Sounds a bit… well.. selfish, doesn’t it? Of course, and we can’t have that.