When people say they want prayer back in schools, they mean all religions not just Christianity right?

Answer 1

Well it is plain to see, that when they took the Christian God out of the schools, the schools became a unsafe place for our children. Any child can pray to what ever faith they choose to worship. But it has been pointed out that NO Christian God allowed in school. So people are against the Christian God, whose name is Jehovah. Doesn't the good book predict that people would TRY to do away with God. The key word here is try though, because God is not going anywhere.

Answer 2

Don't need a specific religious prayer but maybe a moment or two of silence. Then everybody can pray to whoever they want, that way all religions are included.

Besides who says prayer has been removed.

Don't you realize that as long as they have math tests or any other major testing there will always be prayer in school?

I have attended activities that had a different religion than mine offer a prayer. I may not have believed in their beliefs but I still showed RESPECT for them and stood when asked and bowed my head, I just said my own prayers at the time.

Answer 3

No the people who want it back only want their God prayed to. I am a Catholic and do not want it back in school. I don't think that you should make any child feel like an outsider and making them pray together would make the childrem who are not christians feel left out.

Now if they were going to offer prayers for all religions and accually do that I don't think it would be a problem.. It might even help children learn and understand other religions and be able to make a better choice when they are older about what they believe.

But that will never happen with the one track minds that make these type choices.

Answer 4

They usually just mean Christian prayers. Which makes sense since it's pretty much just Christians demanding that everyone prays at school. I mean seriously, no one has taken away anyone's right to pray, they've just given people the right not to. And children shouldn't have religions anyway, they're not mature enough to make their own decisions and it's ridiculous to force them to follow their parents' religion.
And even if they had prayers for all religions, it would still waste time (prayer isn't educational) and it would exclude all the atheist and agnostic children (which should be all of them).

Answer 5

When people say they want prayer back in school, they mean that they want it to be okay for the school to lead the children into Christian prayers during assemblies, after the pledge, etc.

Unfortunately, this is only valid for Christian believers. It's forcing others into prayers not of their religion. Which is wrong because our country was not founded by Christianity in the first place. It was founded by Deists.

Children can still pray, silently, but you can't bring religious paraphernalia into school, such as a Bible. Which I also believe is wrong because as long as you're not preaching to others (unless they want to hear it), it's freedom of religion, which is part of our Constitution.

Answer 6

Oh they just mean Christianity. They'd pitch a fit if I were to openly do a prayer to Thor in a school.

The “prayer in schools” folks don’t really want everybody to have the freedom to practice their religion in school. They don’t want Pagans leading Pagan prayers at assemblies or teenage Witches meeting before school to perform love spells on their crush of the week. Nope, they want Christianity as the default religion and the default method of prayer.

Answer 7

I believe they just mean Christian Styled prayers. If they began to allow Moslems to pray in school, there would be a ban on that. People would also rise up in protest if Children started coloring or drawing pictures of any Hindu styled God.

Answer 8

It is hard to tell.

The Catholic Church agrees with the U.S. Constitution as currently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court and does not support "structured" prayer in public schools.

In the Vatican II document, Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae (Human Dignity), the Church states:

The human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.

Children will continue to privately pray before tests just like they always have.

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

In the U.S., most of those who want to allow prayer in public schools are Christians. I think some would be tolerant of other forms of prayer if it would allow Christian prayer back in public schools.

Nevertheless, in this country there is a clear legal separation between church and state. This prohibits prayer in public schools, not not in private institutions.

Answer 10

The godbots who want religion in schools are dishonest and duplicitous.

They say: "We want religion in schools!"

They mean: "We want OUR religion in schools!"

When I hear a christian godbot (as an example) advocating the placement of religion in school, I say to them one thing:

"You can only put religion into the school if it's not yours. NO christianity. Now pick a religion."

That, of course, forces them to betray their real intent. Either that, or they shut up.

Read this item on WingNut Daily written by a godnazi who is now against prayer at school football games.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46828

He didn't change his tune because his position was wrong; he changed his tune because he didn't get his way and couldn't force his religion onto other people.


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Answer 11

Nope, they just want Christianity in schools. I'm sure they'd be absolutely livid if school prayer included other religions.