Let me "re-phrase" my question...Is not demanding public school audible "prayers" and "worship...?"

Question

forcing non-believers to take time out of their "educational" day, and violating their "Constitutional" right to NOT be forced to endure or "cater" to other's religious beliefs...
The reason our Constitution separates "Religion" from "The State," is to prevent THAT very thing I'm mentioning...Religious people can "publically" and "audibly" practice their religions in "private" schools, and anywhere else they want, as long as they don't use tax payer dollars to push their religious agenda on the "PUBLIC" against some of the public's will...???
Non-believer's DO NOT ask that they're hard-earned tax-paying dollars go to "pushing" their "non-belief" agenda (because non-believers don't have an "agenda") on the rest of the population...and they expect the same "non-action" in return...?????????????

Answer 1

You religious fanatics are brainwashed and dangerous.............................
I'm keeping away from your kind.

Answer 2

schools teach evolution for all of 1 freakign week if that. and it is taught as a biological fact and a theory of where human life may have emerged emerged. based on the arcehlogical facts of where we find the oldest human remains.

if your religion is so damn weak that one week in high school will erase your dogma. then you need to worry about your own teachings and not the things that contradict them.

evolution is a very VERY small part of a high school science class. it is not some dogma that is pounded into the heads of children 24/7 for 12 years. it is one week or less of the cirriculum. and is mentioned mostly in passing. as high school science is not out to explain human existence.

evolution is mainly used to show what a THEORY is. and is explained as an idea of what may have happened.

I am a Theist Satanist. i feel that god put us here and that the smart ones have rejected him. i find the theory of Evolution to be INSULTING at best. and i made my beliefs known to my teachers when the subject came up. but when we had the test questions about it. i simply put a pencil dot in the correct oval for the book designed answer.

get a grip people it is not like you are denying your god if you answer a theoretical question within the bounds of the theory.

Answer 3

First of all I want you to go to a place where you can actually read the constitution and quote to me verbatim where it says "separation"...I believe you will find it NON existent...I believe it says "congress shall pass NO LAW establishing a religion...it give the freedom to choose religion and in the same amendment freedom of speech... So if that is all true then NO you do not have to pray if you chose not to BUT you do not have the right to STOP ME...correct? YES ...this does not say that a person in a government office can not hang a cross on his office wall if he wants to...nor does it say that he must. We have these "freedoms" for a reason...better be careful what you give away!

Answer 4

I am a firm believer in two things. God and the separation of church and state. I do get discusted when I hear of students being told not to include God in their graduation speeches or the kid being sent to the principals office for praying before his lunch or the church group that wants to tutor and mentor troubled teens while someone not even remotely involved complains because it is a church group doing it. These are individual choices not to be dictated by the state. Otherwise, make the separation because if we don't too many religions will monopolize the school system. Which means evolution needs to be dumped as well unless they want to bring in creationism to provoke thought..

Answer 5

Quella,

I'm a believer and gave you a thumbs down. You gave a bad answer.

I agree with the OP. And I think Christians are not focusing on anything important when they try to get prayers instituted in schools. The world has real problems to deal with and Christians need to take actions in those areas. Making people say insincere prayers is completely counter-productive and actually turns them more away from God.

Matt

Answer 6

Oh yes non-believers DO push their agenda off on believers. What is the belief taught in schools about the way the world began? Big Bang Theory (non-believer). What do we teach our kids' about evolution (non-believer theory), We tell our kids' to believe more in the incosistency od Science than the consistency of God. When we as believers' asked for OUR way of thinking to be introduced ALONGSIDE evolution, we face lawsuits and losing jobs and ridicule. I think it's a bit childish of you to think that a single group of people do not have an agenda. We all have agendas and we all think that ours is the right one.The Moment of Silence can be spent by a non-believer picking their nose, as long as my kid has that SAME time to pray.

Answer 7

Is school prayer really an issue? I am 48 years old and never prayed in school. Who's doing all this praying in school?

Answer 8

Why don't they have separate religious lessions / bible study classes or whatever you want to call it so the ones who want to pray can pray all they want, and the ones who don't can focus on Math, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, a Foreign Language, etc........

Answer 9

And us believers are expected to pay our hard-earned tax paying dollars to teach our kids the Theory of Evolution.

Doors swing 2 ways! Get your thumb out of your mouth and stop crying about it!

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Answer 10

Well I can honestly say...wtf...I haven't a clue what side you are on even. Lets have a "dumbed down" re-phrase next time..

Answer 11

Well wouldn't buying books on evolution for the school be wasting just as much tax money? So they can teach evolution.