Air cadets rewrite their oath to remove God from pledge
Posted by Falak Rahman
theguardian: Jamie Doward and Ella Fraser-Thoms.
Humanist association wins campaign to recognise many recruits are non-believers.
One of the UK’s largest and most respected youth organisations will no longer compel its new members to take a religious oath.
In a move that delighted the British Humanist Association (BHA), the Air Cadet Organisation, which was formed in 1938 and played a key role in the second world war, is to offer future cadets the option of a non-religious oath. The decision follows a campaign by the BHA and the United Kingdom Armed Forces Humanist Association (UKAFHA), after they had argued that the organisation needed to recognise that many of its recruits were non-believers.
Posted by Falak Rahman
on January 21, 2013. Filed under Europe,God,Law and Religion,Non-believers,UK.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
2 Responses to Air cadets rewrite their oath to remove God from pledge
Leave a Reply
Islam for the West
It is a website to present Islam to the Christian, agnostic and atheist readers,
in a user friendly fashion:
Visit our amazing collection of videos
Pingback: Air cadets to rewrite oath | HumanistLife
Annetta
March 14, 2013 at 12:56 am
Having read this I thought it was really enlightening.
I appreciate you spending some time and energy
to put this content together. I once again find myself personally spending a significant amount
of time both reading and posting comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!
Feel free to visit my weblog Annetta