So apparently Polonius has joined the guides, while poor old God has been kicked out... Indirectly I came to faith through the Scouts. So it was with a certain amount of sadness that I saw that Scouting's sister organisation, Girlguiding UK has completed the trajectory it set out on a few years ago in first changing the promise from loving "God" to loving "my God" and now, as from September removing all reference to God . The new promise apparently reads I promise that I will do my best To be true to myself and develop my beliefs To serve the Queen and my community To help other people and To keep the Guide law Perhaps the Queen will be the next to get the heave-ho if some campaigners have their way, although isn't it strange that God was pushed out first... As Richard Hall wrote, over at Connexions , strictly speaking, this has nothing to do with me. I am not and never have been a girl guide. I am currently however, the minister of a chur...
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