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Fact or Fiction: New Scouting America oath will have no mention of God?

Fact or Fiction: New Scouting America oath will have no mention of God?
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(KGTV) — We told you last week how the Boy Scouts of America is changing its name next year to Scouting America to be more inclusive.

Now a post is going around social media claiming the new Scouting America oath will have no mention of God.

But that is fiction.

The claim is a piece of satire created by the Facebook page ‘America - Love it or Leave it.’

Although some people thought the story was real, the page makes it clear that nothing it posts has a basis in reality.

The Boy Scout oath will continue to begin with "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the scout law …"

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