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[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

The Girl Scouts are technically a Christian organization (though they let all faiths in) so I'm not surprised they went with Silent Night.

I don't think the Girl Scouts at the core are as Christian, hard-assed and God-centered as the Boy Scouts are. From what I know about the Boy Scouts, there's also a hard-assed Jew scout program. Indeed, my brief tenure in Cub Scouts was through my temple.

God in the Girl Scout promise has an asterisk. One of my friends spent a summer during college doing odd jobs at a Girl Scout camp. I don't know if he thought he'd be starring in his own porn flick, but he came back reporting that the counselors were mostly man-hating lesbians.

But it doesn't matter what the Girl Scouts believe or believed at their founding. If these women led the girls' knitting club and took them caroling, they would have included Silent Night (and Holly Jolly Christmas). It is just, as you say, an oblivious majority thing.