BY ANY OTHER NAME
To expand membership, the Girl Scouts now allows substitute words for GOD in its pledge. Scouts can insert the name of their personal divine being, creator, spirit guide, or whatever, in the slot once exclusively reserved for the Judeo- Christian deity. ‘On my honor,’ the pledge goes, ‘I will try to serve (pick one: God, Allah, Jehovah, Babalu Aye, Sri Krishna, Buddha, the Divine Essence, Sun Myung Moon, Odin, Mother Goddess, Gaia, George Burns, Papa Legba, none or all of the above), and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout law.’ Is this pluralism or polytheism?” From Liberty, March – April, 1994
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