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Since the Pledge of Allegiance and The Lord's Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore because the word "God" is mentioned; a kid in Arizona wrote the attached NEW School prayer.


School Prayer


Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd!

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!

Amen

Answer 1

That was GREAT!! LOVED IT!! Are you sure a kid wrote that??

Answer 2

Well, the first part's fine, but really, I hardly see how brightly-colored hair could be any more offensive than praying, which is apparently what this kid is implying.

Second, since when are kids allowed to "cuss" in school?? I mean, obviously they do it, but you could get detention if a teacher heard, at least when I was in school.

Third: ever counted how many of those pregnant high school girls and unwed daddies are actually Christian and come from Christian backgrounds? I bet way more than the people who oppose prayer in school. I know an unmarried pregnany Catholic who tries to defend her condition by saying that birth control is against her religion. And premarital sex isn't?!? I do agree that teenage pregnancy is not taken seriously enough, but not for any religious reasons, just because it can mess up a teenager's entire future. I'd rather see kids get condoms and birth controls than get pregnant, or some kind of STI.

Four: since when are witchcraft and vampires studied in school, expect perhaps in fictional literature (in which case religion can be discussed as an intellectual topic)? And totem poles, for that matter, outside of being a part of Native American culture? Curiculum must have changed a lot in the past five years.

Five: does this kid even know what the ten commandments are? Does (s)he know that one of them is not to covet thy neighbor's things, livestock, wife (that may even be a separate one). Yeah, great idea, let's enforce those and punish every kid that gets jealous of a classmate. Furthermore, the first three or four of the commandments basically say not to worship other gods or even speak about other gods. A school is supposed to be a place of learning, not suppression.

Lastly, I doubt that chaos in schools is really caused by banning prayer. Schools have been a mess since long before that. It's not even the heydey of school shootings anymore; that was before the prayer debate really got going.

I know it's a poem and it's not meant to be taken quite so literally, but that's what it's come down to, hasn't it? I mean, to be fair, if you pray to one god, you have to pray to all god's, don't you? If not, might as well be back when schools were segregated. But can you imagine getting Christians to try to pray to Krishna? Or Muslims to praise Jesus? It's best to leave large-scale prayer out of schools. Let students pray on their own if they feel the need to, or otherwise take care of it outside school time.

Answer 3

The public school is funded by a multitude people for the education of science, math, social studies, etc. Not all people are Christian. If i have faith and love in God, I can wait til i get home to tell him so. In the mean time, the standard curriculum is what needs to be learned regardless of who's pregnant, has dyed their hair, or who has been facilitated for safe sex. It's just that simple, no need to complicate this issue just enough to distract ourselves from the truely important issues in the world. I'm told there's a war going on.

Answer 4

LOL..a lie in the first stanza. It is not against the rule to pray. Kids can waste their time praying all they want in school. The school is just not allowed to waste the schools time with school lead. There is only so much teaching time in a day. Why waste it on something that produces no results what so ever?

I can see this kid is gonna grow up to be another none thinking, brainwashed cult member. He already has the propaganda down pat.

Answer 5

That is way too long.

Maybe if you were in a religious school or something but in public school this would never fly. Only 1 person stands up for the pledge in my class

Answer 6

that about sums it up. i really agree with the kid. in the area i live it is a little different almost everyone is an active christian, all the teachers and students, but its not a religion school. so we can get away with quoting scripture and the pledge of allegiance. it makes me realize how lucky i am.

Answer 7

No. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/newprayer.asp

P.S- The mention of God is not the only reason why the Pledge of Allegiance is not recited in public schools.

Answer 8

He'll get over it.

And chaos isn't going to reign simply because you're not allowed to have prayer as a part of the school curriculum. (You CAN still pray on your own in school if you wish, and you can read your Bible, too!) If believers are SO delicate that they completely lose control of themselves and resort to chaos if they have to go 6 hours without controlled and mandated prayer, then there's a much deeper problem going on than not demanding that everyone pray according to someone else's beliefs.
Tell the kid to stop his blatting.

Answer 9

Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is a state law where I live. No, I don't like that.

Answer 10

Absolutely

Answer 11

Nice man...
I have hated that rule for awhile.
I'm probley gonna make a shirt that says bong hits for Jesus an wear it for awhile.
(That was a big, BIG, freedom of speech case against a school. Still going on today.)