But isn’t this what you are doing?
The impression you have given in your posts is someone very strong in their humanist faith & who believe passionately in the need for secularism at all levels, that it is the “gold standard” & that it us the purest way to equality.
I don’t disregard or degenerate your faith - far from it I admire what you are trying to do & it has given me pause for thought & left me pondering how we can ensure our events our more inclusive & sympathetic.
However my base philosophy is that you cannot be inclusive by being exclusive.
Humanists uk state that humanists are
people who shape their own lives in the here and now, because we believe it’s the only life we have We make sense of the world through logic, reason, and evidence, and always seek to treat those around us with warmth, understanding, and respect.
& yet there isn’t much logical reasoning on this thread. Or even something that takes into account the human sciences of psychology or sociology addressing the way that people behave particularly with tradition and the familiar “ritual” that they went through with their grand parents.
There is a lot of extrapolation false equivalence fallacies & logical flaws. Ready acceptance of evidence or supposition that supports a particular viewpoint & rejection of those that may counter it.
the religious bits have become less religious even though they haven’t changed & more part of the familiar. When I singing in the car in the way to work
“ Country roads, take me home; To the place I belong”
I’m not claiming I’m from West Virginia nor that’s it’s only bout the price tag, or it’s like a little prayer or we Don’t stop Believing.
It’s a song whose melody that’s enjoyable singing & the group activity helps bring us collectively together.
I’m not playing devils advocate here - as any good researcher will tell you, the evidence you uncover that goes against or counters the conclusion you desire is just as important as the evidence that supports it.
So what evidence have you uncovered in your research counters your position?
Do the people local to you actually want it? Have you asked them?
Do they agree or do they politely smile &nod, humouring you or even perhaps quietly quitting until you move on - something that all volunteers must do eventually.
In short how do you know you are doing the right thing & would it be accepted as doing the right thing by the majority of others.
Whilst your quest for equality of faith is admirable, if it is the wider society you wish to influence it is not something you are going to be able to achieve effectively whilst volunteering within RAFAC or even as a reservist.
As much as it may pain us, as volunteers we are unfortunately not that important, certainly not as important as we like to tell ourselves or like ourselves to be & are sadly are easily replaceable.
At present time there are just more pertinent debates such as “should fieldcraft be part of the Air Cadets” & what is the ethos of the RAF we should be teaching rather trying to change the culture of whole nation overnight instead of a couple of centuries.
Creation & building is always preferable to destruction & removal.
