The Scout Handbook Through the Years

WildB · #1 03-02-2004, 11:15 AM

More than 36 million copies of The Boy Scout Handbook have been printed since the first edition in 1910, which included an illustration of a Boy Scout helping an elderly woman cross a street. One requirement to become a First Class Scout at the time: be able to stop a runaway horse. Later editions of the manual were also representative of their times, as the following examples show:

1945
Merit badges emphasize World War II-era interests, such as airplane structure, signaling, and seamanship. Advertisements in the back of the manual promote Remington and Winchester rifles for achieving a marksmanship merit badge. Scouts were advised to seek advice on sexual matters from "wise, clean, strong men."

1977
Multiculturalism abounds in drawings. Text discusses pollution, conservation, and how to "Go Metric." Merit badges include atomic energy, space exploration, and computers: "Show how your name and address would be punched on a card.

1998
The new "Prepared for Life" section includes warnings on safe Internet use and sexual responsibility: "AIDS and other diseases spread by sexual contact can ruin your life and that of others.'' Elective merit badges include cinematography, disabilities awareness, and snow sports.

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Liberal Hunter · #2 03-02-2004, 04:52 PM

Oh good you scared me for a minute,I thought you were going to say they had a chapter on the proper way to put on a condom.

C. Howett Fields · #3 03-02-2004, 05:29 PM

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Oh good you scared me for a minute,I thought you were going to say they had a chapter on the proper way to put on a condom.

I'm sure that's on the way...

JustOneHunter · #4 03-02-2004, 10:12 PM

WildB doesn't use condoms and is a true Christian!

We may jest about it but WildB may find your dialogue repugnant.

Bwild · #5 08-03-2004, 06:18 PM

Bump. Whats a hourse?

WildB · #6 06-22-2006, 05:54 PM

STAND FAST E SCOUTS~ARR

Dogsbody · #7 12-17-2006, 07:19 PM

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WildB doesn't use condoms and is a true Christian!

We may jest about it but WildB may find your dialogue repugnant.

Birth Control is a sin. The Holy Father in Rome has decreed this many centuries ago. God tells us that birth control is a sin.

Liberty · #8 12-17-2006, 07:28 PM

God tells us that birth control is a sin? Care to provide the Bible verse?

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Dogsbody · #9 12-17-2006, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Liberty

God tells us that birth control is a sin? Care to provide the Bible verse?

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Genesis 1:2 God blessed them and God said to them "Be fruitful and mulitply, and fill the earth..."

Genesis 9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth."

Genesis 9:7 And you, be fruitful and mulitply, abound on the earth and mulitply in it.

Genesis 38:9-10 But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother' s wife, so that he would not give offsping to his brother. What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Psalm 127:3-5 Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb reward. Like arrows in the hand of warrior are the sons of one's youth, Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them...

Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw this he was indignant and said, "Let the little children come to me; do not stop them for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs."

God repeatedly tells humans to be fruitful and multiply. God strikes dead Onan for spilling semen to prevent conception. God tells us in the psalms that the fruit of the wombs is a reward. And Jesus did not want His disciples from letting children come to Him, so why should we use contraception to prevent ourselves from bringing children into this world to bring to Jesus?

Liberty · #10 12-17-2006, 07:59 PM

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Genesis 1:2 God blessed them and God said to them "Be fruitful and mulitply, and fill the earth..."

And where does it say that wearing a condom is a sin?

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Genesis 9:7 And you, be fruitful and mulitply, abound on the earth and mulitply in it.

Same question.

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Genesis 38:9-10 But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother' s wife, so that he would not give offsping to his brother. What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

What does masturbation and disobedience have to do with birth control being a sin?

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Psalm 127:3-5 Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb reward. Like arrows in the hand of warrior are the sons of one's youth, Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them...

Again, where does it say that birth control is a sin?

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Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw this he was indignant and said, "Let the little children come to me; do not stop them for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs."

Please show me somewhere in the entire paragraph that it says that birth control is a sin. The verse has nothing to do with your argument.

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God repeatedly tells humans to be fruitful and multiply.

He also says not to bear false witness which is exactly what you have been doing here.

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od strikes dead Onan for spilling semen to prevent conception.

No, God struck him down for disobedience.

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God tells us in the psalms that the fruit of the wombs is a reward.

Do you support making abortion illegal?

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And Jesus did not want His disciples from letting children come to Him, so why should we use contraception to prevent ourselves from bringing children into this world to bring to Jesus?

Seeing as the verse has nothing to do with your assertion, again, please show us in the Bible where God said contraception is a sin.

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