Looking for advice and/or comments about my 6-year old son and Cub Scouts [View all]

[sadbear]

Hi. I've never posted in this group before. My atheism was never anything that big in my life. I'm pretty sure I was born a skeptic. There was no loss of faith because I never had faith and I've just tended to steer my life away from situations that might cause a conflict.

However, my six-year old son, a first grader, was given a Cub Scout flyer at school and some dumbass told him how great and fun it would be. He desperately wants to join and talks about it every day. I also have a 12-year old daughter, but nothing like this has ever come up before (because Girl Scouts aren't like Boy Scouts.) I'm hoping that he eventually just forgets about it, but I don't know that's going to happen when his little buddies start wearing their uniforms to school, which they do on at least a monthly basis. Since he was raised in an atheist home, he doesn't even know what god is (and don't get me started on the Boy Scouts' exclusion of LBGTQ's.) And he's not quite ready to understand or care what the fuss is all about. What do the parents here think?

I really appreciate it.