2006-10-20 23:18:24 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow, there are still places where the pledge of alligance is said in the morning?
I thought that had been stopped like 30 years ago or something.
this is really a stupid question.
2006-10-20 23:21:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I grew up when prayer in school was still okay. I don't think kids were as bad then but with the family structure being broken down and both parents continually working and stores running seven days a week 24 hrs a day economy looking bad pay rate at its lowest inflation on rents and cars and houses. terrorism and bad weather I cant see how much longer we will last without collapsing. I think every president we've had in the last 80 yrs have all been corrupt.people do what they want to do without remorse and religions wanting to combine because they feel that we all worship the same God which is true but the intention of how we worship and the false lies of other religions will be our biggest down fall. Religion is like a marriage. You wouldn't marry a girl or a guy who lies and cheats on you would you? That is part of the system that is the anti-Christ.
2006-10-20 23:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by johnknight 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It should not! Religion should be a private matter and kept to family or self, not something that children need to learn from a PUBLIC school. I am not Christian and I would be offended by such a demand, but you would be insulted and affronted if I asked for a reading of sutras. The prayer is meaningless and so is the pledge of allegiance...they represent words, not feelings of the children. Religious education is taught in the home or at church. The spirit of religious education is something that needs both clarification and and practice to make a difference.
2006-10-20 23:38:05 · answer #3 · answered by Frank 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure.
Force children to babble that bullsh!t every morning along with the bullsh!t they already spew up, and pretty soon it will lose any meaning it might have otherwise had for them and you might even incite revolt against religion...
... which, incidentally, is exactly what is needed.
Sorta reminds me of the last fight between Kujo Jotaro and Dio Brando... and naturally Jotaro won because, to quote him in English: "You pushed me too damned far" ...
Gah... and this also brings me back to those christmas chapel ceremonies I was forced to endure at school as a child... and the strange fact that I literally can't breathe in religious buildings... something about the air. Anyway, I'd always start choking, and get told off... and eventually pass out. I'm never sure precisely what would happen after that, though most times I'd eventually wake up somewhere else. Those idiots never learnt... but then I did change schools quite a lot back then.
2006-10-20 23:41:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it should not. I understand that Christians will argue that it's not specific, it's "non-denominational." But it comes from the New Testament of the Bible, and is purportedly the very words of Jesus. Therefore, it can be considered a Christian prayer, and it is simply not fair to ask non-Christian kids to use it.
I do like the idea of a minute or two of meditative silence at the beginning of the school day, but leave it private what goes on in the individual's mind during that time. A classroom is a place where respect for privacy must be emphasized. That minute or two to "hear one's own thoughts" in whatever form, would be very healthy for the children IF AND ONLY IF it is understood to stay very private.
2006-10-20 23:23:22 · answer #5 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
As long as you read the Noble Eightfold Path as taught by the Buddha, and say a prayer to Lord Ganesh, Allah, etc etc...
Teach kids religion at home and on Sunday's and let the schools focus on math and science; they're having a tough enough time with that.
2006-10-20 23:22:32 · answer #6 · answered by Abe A 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
that separation of church and state is totally mis understood but really when Jesus taught the "Lord's" prayer He said pray like this not pray these words.He was teaching a pattern for all communication with God.unfortunately with evil influencing the government as much as it does, I do not see any prayer re entering the schools daily unless of course you are Muslim which of course is ridiculous and disgusting but happening which proves my point.
2006-10-20 23:33:53 · answer #7 · answered by cherie118 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I remember when I was at school and refusing to go to assembly as I am pagan, I was immediately carted off and had a bible rammed in my hand a letter written to my parents and told that I would burn in the pits of hell. The Answer is NO NO NO Its not right to have something rammed down your throat that you don't believe in.
2006-10-20 23:36:20 · answer #8 · answered by akasha 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Is this prayer some special magic words that children should HAVE to learn to miraculously pass exams without having to study? School kids are not learning as it is without introducing yet another wasteful practice in the classroom.
You want them to repeat things by rote, without meaning... why? What's that going to accomplish? How many children know, for example, the Pledge of Allegiance and what it means? Did you know, for example, that the Knights of Columbus, mostly a Roman Catholic organization, pursuaded President "Ike" Eisenhower in 1954 or so, to add, "...under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance as a ploy to make children hate the Russians more during the Cold War, because the Russians were supposedly "atheists"? Do you really think our kids need to waste more time in our schools...?
Why should my children and grandchildren be forced to pray or do religious things that their ministers, pastors, priests, rabbis, imans can do at the appropriate place or worship?
Yeah, it should be allowed when religions also teach Darwin's Theory of Evolution!
Ever hear of Separation of Church and State...? I don't send my children to school to pray but to learn ACADEMIC subjects, not twisted and distorted religious propaganda and nonsensical myths!
Let the parents teach the kids to pray at home before they leave and as soon as they get home, before they eat, before they go to sleep, before they shower, before and after they perform a bathroom bodily function... before they swallow each morsel of food... as they get on a bus or train or car... as they walk down stairs, cross the street, get on an elevator, before they enter their place of employment (but not during work hours).... but keep it out of schools (pre-school, elementary, middle and high schools and college/universities) and government offices and/or government lands!
Yeah, I can just imagine me in traffic, behind a car whose driver chose to say a prayer and the light keeps changing from red to green, from green to red, from red to green.... that idiot's praying and I'm late to my appointment...!
Ha! Keep your religion and superstitions private and to yourself; why don't kids just pray at home before setting off to school? Pray is supposed to be a communion between an individual and God... so, do it in the privacy of your home and let everyone else go to school to learn academic subjects... gee, ain't that simple?
2006-10-20 23:51:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No need for mandatory prayer. Does anyone who talks about this issue know how to pray in silence?
2006-10-20 23:22:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋