Which is the best example of why you need to keep religion out of the governments and prayer out of schools?

Question

Palestine, Iraq, or Dark Age Europe?

I would have to say palestine. Dark Age Europe is so long ago. The conflict between the right-wing fundamentalist group Hamas and secular Fatah is happening right now. Terrorist have a stronghold in palestine, because these people brainwash children with religious indoctrination in the schools. Now that they have introduced religion in government, all hell is breaking loose.

Nic T,

Back during the 1500s, christians did indeed preach killing nonbelievers. If you read your Bible, you will see that there are atleast three instances of God commanding believers to kill nonbelievers.

Kat,

True. Before the fundies, you had the secular nationalists. When they were defeated and humiliated by Israel, that left a power vacuum. The fundies moved in to fill it.

Answer 1

Hell was loose before Fatah and Hamas starting fighting amongst themselves. They had a secular government, and Israel wiped it out. Now the religious factions are fighting each other.

That said, I still think Palestine is the best answer. Even though the PLO was technically secular, it was still strongly influenced by popular opinion and was essentially run with the desire to eliminate those with opposing beliefs.

Answer 2

Wow the left has done a remarkable job in twisting the Constitution to make people actually believe it says there is a seperation of church and state. The Constitution was written to mainly protect religions from government. Not the other way around. The founding fathers didnt want a national official religion because it would end up taking away the freedom of those not involved in that religion. It had nothing to do with the concept that we should never ever mention God ever in anything that has to do with the gvt.

We vote based on our morals and what we value and most of us have those morals and values grounded in christianity in the US. So good luck ever taking religion out of the gvt. The founding fathers prayed before every single meeting when writing the Constitution.

I actually don't see a reason to pray before gvt meetings or have prayer in school. You plenty of time on your own to pray. But when people freak out because a cross is being used to represent a state troopers death because we cant dare use a religious symbol, things are going way too far.

Religion hasnt just been introduced in gvt. This country was partly founded on it and definetly influenced by it. And do you really want to hold Europe up as the pillar of virtue? Are you prepared to defend some of their actions in the last 50 years?

Answer 3

Okay, we can keep religion out of school. But how do we draw such a line? Here's a fair and pretty easy to follow guideline.

Any religion or belief that enjoys protection under the constitutionally granted freedom of religion. Including any and all of said believes.

So, since Atheism, which is a protected belief, uses the THEORY of evolution to explain our existance, Evolution is banned from school. So is intelliegent design.


Fair and balanced.

Answer 4

Having religion in or out of school or the government isn't the issue, the issue is what is the motive of the preacher / teacher. There are texts within the Bible and the Koran which can be used to promote violence and to promote peaceful behaviour.

Answer 5

First off, bulls5hit...first off, school is a governmental building, and the separation of church and state is what started this country....so if the child wants to pray, that's what the moment of silence is for. And Muslims do NOT preach killing infidels, that's just the extremists, and extremists of CHRISTIANITY ARE DOING THE SAME THING!!!!! So all those people who think that bullcrap...learn about the religion before saying crap...

Answer 6

I'd say Mr Born Again Bush is also a wonderful example. Look at the mess this allegedly "moral" man has caused: More terrorists, torture as an instrument of interrogation, civil rights abuses, extraordinary renditions, and just being a twit.

Answer 7

Prayer has continually been allowed in faculties. It merely can't be mandatory or led by capacity of a central authority worker/instructor. How do i understand? i replaced right into a Christian new child in public college. We prayed each and all of the time, we merely could desire to no longer interrupt classification time with it or do it in a manner that afflicted human beings. We had Christian golf equipment and flagpole prayers. We have been inspired, no longer oppressed. As for prayer scuffling with any problems in faculties: Care to describe the babies at Heath intense who have been shot down by capacity of a loopy new child for the period of flagpole prayer? curiously God could desire to no longer scientific care the killer's insanity or maybe warn the babies who have been committed to him that a killer replaced into coming. i do no longer advise to be insensitive to Christians or to the sufferers or survivors of Heath, yet each and all of the justifications getting used to infringe upon the rights of human beings could desire to be replied. before right this moment illiteracy replaced into blamed on the absence of mandated college prayer. yet I even have in no way heard of a single guy or woman who prayed themselves literate. as nicely, did no longer Jesus command you to wish on your closets and render unto Cesar that it particularly is Caesar’s?

Answer 8

There is a difference. Muslim preach the killing of infidels. Christianity does not.

Edit: 1500's, not 2000's.

Answer 9

Our Constitution does not direct that "you need to keep religion out of the governments and prayer out of schools?"

In fact, our Constitution *does* direct that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free expression of religion.

So...which expression of religion are *you* proposing be restricted?

Answer 10

A great example of "politics" at its worst. Point out the worst examples of failure and forget that a little prayer in school might do a child some good.