Don't you think it's good there are no prayer groups in Schools? You would have to let all the religions (prayers) be prayed in order to be fair! Don't you think that children being denied prayer in school makes them hungry and thirsty for God's word, and his righteousness, and they shall be filled? :)
Have a blessed day!!!
2007-09-21 03:58:22 · 28 answers · asked by sisterzeal 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hon, In my opinion, that's why schools are so bad now - cause they took the Good Lord out of them. Now we have gays, shootings/killings, and all kinds of things going on there. It' always been but, trust that it is worse now. And yes i believe that it makes children hungry and thirsty for God's word "that they will be okay" no matter what. There are a lot of kids that need to know this on a daily basis. *hug* you have a blessed day too.
2007-09-21 04:05:36 · answer #1 · answered by spreetray 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
There are prayer groups in schools. It's fine as long as school officials aren't part of it, because that would make it look like they are endorsing religion, and it's not their place to do that.
Kids can pray during free time (lunch, recess, etc.). What is not allowed is the teacher leading students in religious activities.
Parents get to decide how to bring up their kids. You don't get to make *other* families participate in your religion, just as they don't get to dictate their religion to your family.
Contrary to what some of the others are saying, not all states had school prayer before the Supreme court banned it. Many had already banned it with their state constitutions.
2007-09-21 11:08:05 · answer #2 · answered by Robin W 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am glad that there are no prayers in school. There is no way that each and every religion can be accomodated in a public school and no one really wants their child to be taught something against their own beliefs. I have no issue with religion or those that practice. I don't believe that one religion should take precedence over another in a public school. That is what private, religious schools are for. My daughter learns about various religions from her various friends. When she is ready to make a decision about what she believes, she will find her way.
Though she scares most of her friends parents with her ideas about Wiccanism. She does find the earth based beliefs most to her way of thinking.....
2007-09-21 11:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by sinnyloo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If your school has no prayer groups, that is your decision and not the government's.
Anybody can pray in school. If you want to get a bunch of students together to pray before school, or during recess, or whenever, you can do it.
What the law says is that you can't make it mandatory for all students to attend. You can't have a teacher or some other authority figure leading the prayer and "encouraging" all other students to join in.
But if ya'll want to pray, y'all should go for it.
2007-09-21 11:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Acorn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is a good question. I believe that the christians should have fought harder to keep prayer in the schools in the 1960's when most people prayed to Jesus.
Jesus is the God of this Nation......the freedom part is that everyone can come here from other nations and pray to their own God (although there are no other Gods).
But, nevertheless, what's done is done, but I would be very willing to put prayer back in the schools, only it would be silent prayer where everyone could pray to their own God. And I am convinced that they would see that JESUS is the only God who truly answers prayer.
2007-09-21 11:53:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have a different approach to this issue- if there are Christians in school, they will pray no matter if someone tells them not to or not. God is wherever His children are. Those who hunger and thirsty after His Word and righteousness- will pray in school.
2007-09-21 11:15:26 · answer #6 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the problem is that we used to be a Christian nation (that allowed pluralism to exist among individuals). Now we are a nation in which pluralism or secularism is what our government endorses. Consider past court decisions (prior to the 1960s)...for instance, In Church v. Bullock (1908), it was ruled that Bible readings, the Lord’s prayer, and singing hymns in public schools is nonsectarian and therefore constitutional. The Court commented, “Christianity is so interwoven with the web and [fabric] of the state government that to sustain the contention that the Constitution prohibits reading the Bible, offering prayers, or singing songs of a religious character in any public building of the government would produce a condition bordering upon moral anarchy.”
2007-09-21 11:05:24 · answer #7 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Students are free to form their own prayer groups. It's prayer that's led by an authority figure that slips into gray areas.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in school.
2007-09-21 11:03:53 · answer #8 · answered by serious troll 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Children aren't denied prayer in school and there are prayer groups in schools.
2007-09-21 11:04:43 · answer #9 · answered by OPad 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Denied prayer in school?
They can pray all they want, they just can't have a teacher lead them or force the rest of the school to take time to allow them to pray!
If they are hungryfor prayer, they can go to after-school religious functions. Not interrupt the rest of the students.
edit: Crusader and spreetray, with your logic, kids are killing people because we added "Under God" to the plege. (Homicides in schools have increased significantly since that date.) Don't associate correllation with causation. Basic logic.
2007-09-21 11:05:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋