Here's an uplifting little story of human solidarity and secular progress for a rainy Friday afternoon. Girl guides in Australia have dropped their oath of allegiance to the Queen (of England) and also more importantly to that grand-daddy of all conceptual ideas, God. This is a really positive step in my opinion, children are not cannon fodder for religion although religious organisations seem to make this assumption all the time, and the age of empires passed away a century ago, why any Australian child or indeed any child in any country need make promises to entities which they neither understand nor affect their lives in order to sell cookies to old people is baffling in the extreme.
Good on ya, girl guides!
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