Rose42 wrote:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-scouts-america-may-file-bankruptcy-due-costs-sex-abuse-n947576?fbclid=IwAR2RVmZt0jYoGpgv4qscutshFxVKPx8yiO9LXBGyaHLEu03yw4YVvWXOCGo
I was a boy scout about a half century ago, and it seemed at the time that everyone I knew, adults, children, didn't have to go out of their way to embrace morality, it was just part of the human fabric. It was pretty much the same where patriotism was concerned.
Today, we have scandals like the Boy Scouts', not just in that institution but throughout every level of our society.
We've allowed g****r confusion to saturate our society to Babelesque proportions, we've allowed intrusive government to force dubious concepts on the unwilling and mandate substandard but indoctrinational "education" for our youth, we've allowed what were once well labelled radical "subversives" to become members of Congress and we've allowed eight years of a president whose every personal belief was the antithesis of America and profound benignity to our enemies and then nearly elect a hardened criminal to succeed him. We've permitted a powerful and aggressive atheist force to muscle it's way into our society and take root.
I don't know how many here are familiar with Hieronymus Bosch, a painter from about five centuries ago who produced some highly intense work.
One of his paintings is titled "The Miser." In it, an old miser is on his death bed, being watched by a few malevolently gleeful demons from around the room.
I only bring this up because I imagine the same demons grinning down on our society, watching with evil amusement as it continues to decay.
We just seem to have done some kind of corrupt one-eighty somewhere along the line, so while I am saddened by the deterioration and subsequent demise of the Boy Scouts of America, call it a kind of cynicism brought on by developments named above, I'm not surprised.
Why should even once thoroughly wholesome entities like the BSA be spared, when we're allowing everything else to deteriorate to the point of unrecognizability?