For religious people: If it is allowed WHICH religious denomination do we pick to have in publics schools?

Question

There are three major religious denominations so which one do we impliment? better yet Christians since the fight for prayer in public schools comes from this denomination let me ask you another question Would you be happy if you child was required to pray according to Islam at the publc school he or she is attending? I mean after all you got what you wanted, prayer in a public school...

Do you seem what I am getting at? This is the reason why prayer should NOT be in a public school.

So to those who are reading this
1) Which religious denominations should be used as prayer in public schools, if it was allowed
2) Would you be happy if your child had to pray in according to a different religious denomination
3) Do you still think prayer should be in public schools?

To poster cliffpotts2005: you 've made a good point

To poster chris: First I was stating my opinion and Two I wanted to ASK what others thought so Yes IT IS A QUESTION

Answer 1

Are you asking a question to which you would like the answer or just interested in the diatribe?

I am a Christian, but I do not believe there should be religion or prayer in schools just for the items you mentioned - varying denominations.

There should be a devotional moment or two during the day for kids to pray or not - as they choose.

Answer 2

No government promoted prayer in schools at all. In reading a few of the posts here many asked for a moment of silence be allowed so the kids who wanted to pray could. They already have that. The law currently in effect DOES NOT BAN prayer from public schools. It only states that the school (i.e. the governemnt) can not instigate, promote, or organize such prayer. Students are free to pray silently all they wish, even organize prayer sessions amoung other students as long as the school itself has no part in it.

Answer 3

Good luck on the answers:

Religious Education in Public Schools: It is defiantly not the job of the U.S. Government to promote any specific religion or creed. The public school is not the public platform for evangelical outreach. Should there be any religious education it would serve the nation best to teach the academic understanding of all the nations religions; this includes, but it not limited to:

Christianity
Buddhism
Hindu
Muslim
Native American
Wicca

If a person feels that a specific religious education is necessary, they have at their disposal such instructional Para-church organizations as AWANA, and Shipmates, and the Sunday School Classes. Should they not be able to get their children to attend such religious institutional outlets, it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure such is done for them. In all honesty, with the way that this nation switches trends, would it be wise, over the course of a lifetime, to expect the nation to focus on any one religion's teachings? It boggles the imagination that parents would want this kind of education in the hands of the secular school system. Also, the secular schools have enough to cope with at their present level of obligation.

Answer 4

other religions are not denominations, other religions are other religions, denominations are split offs of the same religion. to the above poster, most murders are done by christians. the person that murdered madeline o hare was christian, because christians have a natural dislike for other christians and non christians.

Answer 5

I do not believe any one religion should be acknowledged in schools. A moment of silent thought is the most there should be---this includes everyone.

Answer 6

It's not a matter of which denomination...but rather eliminating the insane notion that somehow the 'G' word is damaging our kids.

Answer 7

Billy Graham's daughter said it all...

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the attacks on Sept. 11).

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.

And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.

Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

I say AMEN to that!

Answer 8

Christianity. It's what this country and it's principals were based on. If it weren't for that and the freedom it helped establish...no Islam would ever get to live here.