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I think that scouting helped me in a lot of ways, although the whole "help people with a smile on your face" has caused some major difficulties in my life w.r.t. self-care. I did OA stuff, Silver Moccasin one year and then followed up teaching at the next year's event, and submitted my Eagle paperwork on my 18th birthday (late 2000s). I was openly an atheist, but my scoutmaster and many of the other adults in the troop (we had 50 kids and 100 adults) were very understanding, and I was able to pass my eagle board of review by talking about how I was still a spiritually active person.
I had a pretty ideal experience, and I'm glad I participated. I still use stuff that I learned, and scouting helped me discover that my limits were much further than I thought.
I'm sad that something which had the potential to be helpful turned into a nightmare for so many kids. If I had kids I might still look into some of the local troops, but I'd have to be heavily involved in order to feel comfortable.
Oh ok, at my BoR, I lied and said I was an actively practicing Buddhist when I was really more atheist than buddhist
FYI
I always thought Zoroastrians were no longer an active religion until I saw them on the merit badge list