In my experience, scouts was about going out into the hills and lighting campfires. And occasionally operating firearms. Seriously, that was it. Actually, I think the beavers and cubs organizations I was in had more structure, but scouts, we just had this nutty leader who just wanted to spend every tuesday night sitting around camp fires, regardless of whether it was -30, or +30 with severe fire hazards.
Anyway, more to your question, atheists always get the short end of the stick, and honestly I think it would be very hard to grow up atheist. I'm sort of glad that I was Christian for much of my youth and began a progression from that perspective toward agnostic atheism in my mid teens.
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