Should there be a seperation between Church and State in America?

Question

Is there an argument for God in the classroom, can we really seperate people's beliefs from their education system? Surely many beliefs stem from spirituality itself?

Or are we imposing beliefs on young people by teaching God in the classroom?

What do you think?

Answer 1

NO. But we should not teach, or impose, a specific religion. I think it would be great to teach all the world's religions in schools. And whichever reaches that student, they have the right to choose from knowledge...

Answer 2

{Well... the Pledge of Allegiance does say, ...One nation, under GOD, indivisible}
Ah yes, but "under god" was not in the original version, that was introduced in the '50's I think..
And morality and ethics should be taught at home if they are religious based, that is the parent's job not the educational system's. But there are classes in ethics that have nothing to do with religion.

And, there already IS separation of church and state, (though it appears to be rapidly disintegrating, unfortunately), and YES it should remain so. Religion has NO place in politics. Prayer belongs in places of worship and in the home.
Yes you can separate the education system from religion, and we must. The public education system is about teaching english, math, science, history, other languages etc, NOT about teaching religion.
America is a pluralistic society, with many different races, cultures and spiritual beliefs, so no one specific church or belief system should be imposed. America is a Democracy, not a Theocracy. We need to make sure that it stays that way.

Answer 3

First off it would be almost impossible to separate God from state affairs. The men and women in the congress have their beliefs and agendas based on their religious and cultural upbringing. I really would not want to see how bad things could get if those men and women tried to make decisions based purely on the law with no moral conscience governing their actions.
The whole deal about separating Church and State is in practice now. The reason that there is a amendment to separate the two is so that the Church could not take over the government and force a single religious belief on the people. That can not happen in America.
Having a president and congress that are Christians and witness to the country is a great thing. Even if you are not Christian Jesus taught us some very good ideals. Peace and harmony and such.
As to whether or not the children are allowed to pray at school is a no brainer. We can not force Christianatity or any other religious prayer on any one. There should be a small amount of time provided for meditation in all public schools. If a child chooses to pray to God during that time then I can not stop him. If a teacher chooses to pray also then that is great, too.
If you want your child to receive certain religious belief teachings at school enroll them in a school that is geared towards that. As long as a school receives funding from the federal government then that school can not force any one religion on the students.

Answer 4

There should absolutely be separation of church and state. The issue should never have entered the public school classroom to begin with.

The entire public school system is afraid of saying God in any classroom (why do you think they invented "Intelligent Design"). Quit trying to rile people up with misinformation.

People should be able to speak their thoughts regardless of religion or about religion, even students in a classroom but Creationism should NOT be taught in public schools.

The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 5

there's a separation between chrurch and state so as that all of us is unfastened to coach regardless of faith they want to, so as that the church isn't on top of issues, so as that folk may be unfastened. They instituted this rule by using fact the means that the chrurch had in england became into too great and it wrought terror upon the individuals. The church having means interior the state has brought about particularly some terrible issues to take place, which contain the criminal murders that occured in the process the Salem Witch trials. subsequently there's a separation. it fairly is fairly no longer a difficulty, however the answer to a difficulty. the actual difficulty is that the chruch nonetheless has too lots means over the state, by using fact Christianity is the foremost faith of usa. subsequently gay marriage is unlawful, the only reason being the chruch's distain for it. human beings could desire to chop up church and state of their very own minds in the previous balloting. I hate it whilst human beings enforce their non secular values on individuals.

Answer 6

We all have different religions and some of us have none. It is not the role of the state to impose one or another on the populace. Religious freedom means the right to practice what you will outside of governmental entities. It should always remain seperate. God has no lace in the classroom. Religion is the only thing we are encouraged to participate in without evidence of its reality or any basis for its fact. How can you mix science, which is based entirely on empircal study with religion which is entirelt faith based with no evidence to support it. Teaching religion is school is like to teaching easter bunny studies or santa class.

Answer 7

You're asking a difficult question. I wrote an article on one of my blogs a long while ago about this issue, and it was too brief. In short, there is no clean separation of Church and State possible, and it is still an experiment. On the other hand, too much union results in disastrous things. There is no easy answer, and I don't know the "proper" balance, if there is such a thing :(.

http://innokent.blogspot.com/2007/03/great-wall.html

Answer 8

Of course...
I have ever thought that every countries have to be secular ones.
None democracy can oblige the persons to share religion.
Each person has rights, and one of that rights would have to be the totally freedom to make the own choice about religion.
Why a budhist kid has to go to school and to be taught there about christianism for example? Or a muslim kid?or an hinduist one? The religious teaching has to be maken by the family, noy by shools and the state
Will the citizens be better bcoz they have religion at school?
Has USA less levels of crime bcoz the kids learn about religion? I dont think so..
State and religion has to be separate
Country has to be secular.....and State has to be laic.

Answer 9

No system is perfect but in our western world (from Europe to America) the institutions of Church and State are separate as opposed to mid-eastern worlds (namely of Arabic-Islamist persuasion) where all is one and there is absolutely no room to breathe in and no discussion possible. True, it is sometimes difficult to separate the two (especially where children are involved and must have a sense as to where grandfather went when he died) and it is nearly impossible to go without some sort of spiritual sense in our adult life but at least, around here (I'm in Canada) the "Church stuff" is pretty much left to the individual, and that's fine by me.

Answer 10

Now that there are so many conflicting religions, teaching about God should be done in private schools only. Would you want Atheists teaching prescribed curriculum about God to your children if you are a believer.

Forced religion only leads to persecution.

Answer 11

I cannot understand why people insist on trying to push God in public schools.

If parents are that concerned about whether their precious little Dylan or Jordan is getting the spiritual education he or she deserves, here's a wild thought: Get off the computer, sit down with your child and LEAD him in prayer.

If nonreligious folks wanted to go to church, there are certainly enough opportunities. If the message was that compelling, people wouldn't need to force it upon captive audiences.