if 1 woman could take prayer out of school, then why can't many christians put it back?

Question

we need it there & everywhere! thanks

Answer 1

You're right. People have taken God out of just about everything and look what happens in schools now. If people keep telling God to stay out, then He will eventually He will step a side.

God Bless

† New Mission Prayer Warrior †

Answer 2

I don't believe that prayer, or religion of any sort, should be in public schools. As a Christian, I know how to pray at home, without dragging it into public situations. If religious schools want to have prayer, fine. And if a public school student wants to say a prayer privately, that's fine, too. But to force prayer upon non-believers, or upon believers who don't happen to feel like praying at the moment, is wrong. So is endorsing prayer that favors one certain belief system over all others.

Answer 3

She did NOT take prayer out of schools, she took ORGANIZED prayer out of schools.

She understands that freedom OF religion also means freedom FROM religion.

And she didn't do it by herself, I helped, along with 10's of thousands other people and the Supreme Court of the United States.

The reason is very simple, I don't want my children led in a prayer that is from someone else's faith. We are not Christian. (Which is the group that YOU want to lead the prayer.) How do you think my children would feel as they most certainly would be singled out when they didn't participate. Here's a hint, they'd feel the same if the Muslim religion was the only one practiced and YOUR children were forced to participate.

Schools are a place to get education.

Churches are a place to practice your faith, which may include prayer. Go to your church if you want to pray. Go to school if you want to learn. A class in Constitutional Law would be very beneficial to you.

Peace.

Answer 4

For several reasons (I'll name two):
1. The Christians have been used by political parties to get elected, by promising that they'd put prayer back in school. They lied.
2. Not every Christian WANTS prayer in school; at least, not to the extent where teachers are leading it. I'm one of them.

I would vote against it. It wouldn't be in our best interest. No offense to any of the atheists on here, but I certainly wouldn't want an atheist teacher leading my kids in prayer.

Prayer belongs in three places:
Church, home, and Christian schools.

I believe students should be able to pray on their own at school, though, and if the majority of the student body wants to have prayer at school events, I see no issue with that, either.

Answer 5

1 woman didn't...quit using her as the boogeyman! it doesn't help the discussion to start off with a falsehood-the supreme court has 9 justices-stop blaming everything on 1 person!
the bigger falsehood, that some uneducated Christians and uneducated atheists alike enjoy spouting, is that it illegal to pray at school-NOT TRUE! not now, not ever! what the courts have consistently ruled is that the schools may not:

compose prayers for students
force students to pray
lead public prayers
prohibit students from praying

really, it's bad enough when atheists try to pass off this 'prayer is illegal in school' nonsense, but when a Christian parrots the same thing, it only encourages ignorance and discourages other Christians

maybe the problem isn't so much not enough prayer at school, but not enough prayer at home! which brings me to my final point-quit asking the schools to be the guardian of your kids' souls, mr and mrs american parent-get off your butts and do YOUR job as parents!

Answer 6

Since voluntary prayer was never removed from public schools, your point is really made moot.

Tell me.. do you want children led in a prayer to Allah? How about if they draw a prayer circle to the Goddess? Do you mind prayers to Shiva or Loki? If you answered, "I don't want that!" to any of those, then you don't really want organized prayer in schools.

The fact is, students in public schools may pray at any time, as long as they are not disturbing class or harassing others. Is that too much to ask?

Why is it that Christians such as yourself cannot provide adequate religious education for your children? Religious minorities don't expect the U.S. Government to pick up the parental slack in religious education, after all.

BTW, that snide remark about "one woman" is incorrect. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized school prayer was unconstitutional. The case was brought to the Supreme Court by a number of families. You're blaming the lawyer for the people she represented, and you're blaming people for standing up for their Constitutional right not to have their governmental entity -- public schools-- choose their children's faith for them.

If you "need" prayer in public schools, what's stopping your children from praying? I am a public school teacher and periodically pray to Hashem (my god). I just don't expect my students to pray along with me.. I pray silently. Can your god not hear that kind of prayer? Or is it that you feel Jesus was wrong as cited in Matthew 6:5-8?

Answer 7

School is usually a State run institution. Most are becoming increasingly anti-Christian. When I was involved in Religious Education it became an increasing problem with regard to having to teach all the major religions. I decided this was not on and, under these conditions, believe that RE should not be taught in Schools.

Answer 8

No one can ever take prayer away from God's people. NO ONE. But public schools simply cannot facilitate one at the exclusion of all the others. It's a constitutional provision voted upon by we the people.

Answer 9

because you dont have the right to impose your dogma on my children without my permission. I would sy the same thing to any religion that wanted to try and get a public institution, that I pay for, to force dogma on my children. There may be a great deal of you, but not all tax payers are christian, and we ALL pay for the public schools.

Answer 10

Why do we need to pray in school????????? I never understood this. Pray before you go to school. Pray in between classes. Pray at lunchtime. Pray after school.

I dont get why there is this need to take precious learning and classtime away to have this prayer time or moment of silence when anyone can pray on their own time. Do you have to save your prayers for when you are in school????

Explain the logic behind holding your prayers until you get to school just to take time away from the classroom when you can just as easily pray before you get to school.


and I very much believe in prayer but I just dont get why group prayer time is needed in school