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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sundance79, post: 2877928, member: 84413&quot;]Actually that question doesn&#039;t even come into play until a scout reaches the level of Eagle Scout. So really any boy can join Boy Scouts, they just can&#039;t be a true atheists and become an Eagle Scout. (But in my experience, very few people who say they are atheists are really true atheists. What they usually are are agnostics if you question them closely about their beliefs.) The Boy Scouts are very liberal on that &quot;atheists&quot; term. I was told and it was practiced, at least in the council I was part of, that all a boy has to believe in was that there was something greater them himself. So the question to a boy wasn&#039;t if they believed in Christ, or God, or Mohammad, etc, just if they believed in something greater than themselves.&nbsp; Now in some church sponsored troops, you had to be a Baptist or Catholic or Mormon, etc. But in that case a boy could just look for a troop that was not sponsored by such a strict group. The troop my son was in was sponsored by the Nights of Columbus (A Catholic men&#039;s group), and believe me, we were not Catholic. But my son made Eagle in that troop.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS - I just have to add this. I was talking to guy one night in a bar who claimed to be an atheists. After going around and around with him about a God or no God, I asked about Mother Nature. I said, &quot;Well, about about Mother Nature, is that a force in the universe?&quot; His reply, &quot;Of course, Mother Nature is a force greater that all of us.&quot; I said, &quot;So then you are not an atheists.&quot; He looked up at the ceiling for a long time in thought and finally said, &quot;Damn, your right!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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