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Old 6th July 2012, 06:51 AM
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The Girl Guides have lost all references to god and the defender of imaginary friends from their pledge:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1226418333658

ON ABC AM this morning, the spokesperson for the Guides said something to the effect that pledges to god were no longer relevant to young people today! I wonder what reaction that will draw ...

The tele is running a poll at the link that I have put up, and it is running in against the decision at the moment.
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Old 6th July 2012, 08:39 AM
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Oh great, now what's going to happen? They'll start doing crime, dressing provocatively, drinking alcohol, getting pregnant and start selling hash cookies!
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Oh great, now what's going to happen? They'll start doing crime, dressing provocatively, drinking alcohol, getting pregnant and start selling hash cookies!
T'riffic where can I sign up
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Old 6th July 2012, 10:10 AM
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Old 6th July 2012, 10:12 AM
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What we are witnessing is Atheistic militancy! I again call for the separation of Atheism and State!
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I can now buy my wife a Girl Guides outfit safe in the knowledge that I'm not promoting a religious organisation.
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Old 7th July 2012, 09:27 AM
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Christian Democratic leader Reverend Fred Nile said Girl Guides should be "ashamed" at acting disloyally toward the Queen.

"I was disgusted to see the Girl Guides, in a special ceremony, were removing the Queen's portrait from their meeting halls," he said in a statement on Friday.

"They should be ashamed of themselves for this act of disloyalty."

He urged the families of Girl Guide members to threaten a boycott until "they reverse this shameful, disloyal and atheistic policy".
I thought it was a reasonable move but my spiritual guide Fred Nile disapproves so I must also disapprove. I will henceforth be boycotting all Girl Guide cookies, unless they have hash in them.
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I thought it was a reasonable move but my spiritual guide Fred Nile disapproves so I must also disapprove. I will henceforth be boycotting all Girl Guide cookies, unless they have hash in them.
More cookies for us! I knew atheism was the dark side, it has cookies :-D
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Old 7th July 2012, 09:58 AM
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Methinks that the difference between atheism and secularism appears to have escaped our ol' mate Fred.

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