WHY would any self-respecting young atheist want to join an organisation originally launched by a devious, authoritarian imperialist, and racist to boot? Furthermore, Lord Baden-Powell detested atheists, intellectuals, and socialists, and suggested a bonding of the Boys Scouts with the Hitler Youth Movement. We ask the question because the Boy Scouts were in the news [...]
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BRIAN MORRIS, in the November Freethinker, examines the life of a “devious, authoritarian imperialist”. This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scout movement, an event now being celebrated. Legend has it that it was started by the Boer War hero Lord Baden-Powell. But was it? And what sort of [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
