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The sinister reason they're robbing the Guides of God

By Peter Hitchens

PUBLISHED: 01:58, 23 June 2013 | UPDATED: 02:56, 23 June 2013

If this country still had any spirit, tens of thousands of families would this weekend be resigning from the Girl Guides (or �Girlguiding� as it is now modishly known) and setting up a pro-British, pro-Christian breakaway.

An important youth movement, in which young minds are formed, has been taken over by radical revolutionaries, who plan to cut references to nation and God from the Guide �promise� � a pledge they themselves describe as the organisation�s �beating heart�.

They know what they are doing. The same people long ago captured the schools and universities, which are now factories of Left-wing conformism. Now they want the youth movements as well.
Girlguiding plan to cut references to nation and God from the Guide 'promise'

But there will be no revolt. This is partly because the New Left are masters of a technique known as �salami-slicing�, by which they slowly change the country into somewhere else.

Each individual action is so thin a slice that only a few people will mind, and most will jeer at them for caring. �Moral panic!� they will squawk.

But once enough of these slices have been taken, it is clear that a deep and lasting change has happened. By then it will be too late. People will quickly forget that Girl Guides were ever Christian or patriotic. And the pledge to honour the Queen � which has been kept for now � will go later.

As one of nature�s stroppy non-joiners, I�ve never been a Boy Scout. For me, the joys of the outdoors are overrated.

But I can�t help noticing that youth movements have been hugely important in the political struggles of our age. The Russian Communists and the German National Socialists both banned the Scouts and Guides.

And both Hitler Youth and Communist Pioneers had one thing very much in common � recruits were urged and even ordered to attack the Church. Pioneers jeered at priests in the street and even campaigned against Christmas trees.

Hitler Youths (whose meetings were held at the same time as church services) spied on priests and denounced them for the slightest criticism of the regime.

Hitler knew well what he was up to. To those many German adults who refused to follow him, he sneered: �When an opponent declares �I will not come over to your side�, I say calmly, �Your child belongs to us already . . . what are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community�.�

Or, as the brainwashed Hitler Youth sings in the film Cabaret, �tomorrow belongs to me�.

Parents who struggle to bring up children to love God and country know already how true this is, how their young come home from school stuffed with politically correct equality and diversity rubbish and ignorant of our history and tradition. Now the same process will affect the Guides.

Why should this happen? For those who think the Scouts and Guides are too patriotic or too religious, a Left-wing scout movement, the Woodcraft Folk, has long been available. I rather admire them for their independent-minded guts.

Long may the Woodcraft Folk flourish in our free, Christian country, but why should the Girl Guides copy them, and introduce this sickly little pledge of selfishness and squidgy loyalty to their �community�?

You�ll have to ask those who appointed Julia Bentley as the organisation�s chief executive. Ms Bentley is a zealous sexual liberationist, condom outreach worker, Blairite commissar and abortion apologist, so what did they expect?

But who, apart from her, actually wants this change? A few months after she was appointed, the Guides sent out a �Consultation� questionnaire. Questions 7, 8 9 and 10 are all about the wording of the promise. I asked, and asked and asked �Girlguiding� to give me figures on how respondents actually answered these questions. They flatly refused to tell me. Draw your own conclusions.

The so called powers that be in this country are getting rid of christianity as fast as they can and replacing it with================ yes youve guessed