Should Christian prayer be returned to our schools??? If so.... which major sect or cult???

Question

I am a Christian.
I believe in prayer.
We used to say the Lord's prayer every morning in school ( also read a Bible verse and said the Pledge)
Did the Lord's prayer cover every Christian belief? Or was someone not represented?
We don't have to discuss other faiths and their prayers in our schools. I'm asking Christians and they don't want the others anyway; what Christian sect or cult should be represented in our schools?

I am not debating that other faiths should be represented. But since this ques. is addressed to Christians, I would like to know their opinion as to which sect or cult should schools represent?

Answer 1

The issue of course is the schools either need to allow all major religions in or none.

That's the whole basis of the concepts of "separation of church and state" and "freedom from religious persecution" which our country was founded on.

You may well be a Christian, but your child might have Jewish classmates or Muslim ones. Certainly if the school only allowed Muslim prayers you would probably be offended, so by only having Christian prayers, that's effectively doing the same thing.

A better concept would be to have a silent prayer portion of the day which kids could pray silently however they like, and those who chose not to pray could be excused.

It should not be a school's role to teach religion. That should fall to parents and churches, unless you are in a religious private school.

Sorry Lynn (below) but just because you believe something doesn't mean it's true, and doesn't mean everyone else has to believe it. Religious bigotry is still bigotry, and trying to ram your beliefs down everyone else's throats is still tyranny, no matter how you try and candy coat it with spiritual "icing".

Semper Fi Reborn - You are right about the decay of our public schools, but the issue is not the lack of prayer, it falls squarely with the parents. Kids coming from broken homes, having 3 or more siblings all from different fathers, parents using drugs, being raised by nannies while their parents are off elsewhere. The cumulative effect over the last few decades has been a tremendous decline in parents truly caring, loving & supporting their children. I'm generalizing of course, as there undoubtedly lots of good parents out their too, but the bad ones have grown significantly in numbers in the past 30 years. That is why we see things like Columbine.

Answer 2

Are you a Christian? Are you sure? You say Christianity is a cult or sect. A major one at that. Does it matter what a person wants or not? What does the Lord want? Have you asked him? Are do we just go about making statement that we think are true? God is not looking for a prayer on our lips and a recital just because. Do you really believe in prayer? Good for you saying the Lord's prayer every morning and reading a Bible verse and singing the pledge of allegiance. Funny! Does the Lord's prayer cover every Christian belief? You are so unacknowledged about the word of God and his purpose,You are confused. God is concerned about what is represented in our hearts. He knows about us and he knows about the schools. Just like life. Can you stop a rack of dominos from falling all at once? How many hands would you need?

Answer 3

There should be no mandatory or school-wide Christian prayer in schools, because there are many students who follow other faiths.

There is a mandatory minute of silence every morning, at least where I live, during which any student can pray silently for whatever religion they wish to. Christian students can easily pray to God during that minute each morning, without disrupting those of other faiths.

Answer 4

You don't need to pray with anyone else....if you want to pray in school you still can. You can read a Bible verse and whatever else you want.....just get to school a little early and make sure you're alone.

However praying in school as a whole is against the law and it should stay that way.

If you want prayer in school find a religious school...they pray and sometimes having religious services daily.

Answer 5

Jesus taught that when we pray, we should pray privately. Not publicly as the hypocrits do, for they already have their reward. Read the Sermon on the Mount- Mathew 5-7. Pray privately. Not at football games over the P.A. system or in school, etc.

This is not a Christian nation- it's a secular nation. Merging church and state only corrupts the church- look at churches throughout history that have done that- it's a sorry history. Better for churches to remain independant and true to their faith than to compromise it for the benefit of power-hungry politicians.

Blessings

Answer 6

As a child in school I never felt the need to question the concept of morning prayer,it really did nothing to cause me any harm or upset,I really think that it is Adults who foist their bias upon schools and pretend they are defending the children.

Answer 7

i think that all children should have the right to prayer in school, luckily where my kids go to school at, they still have morning prayer and the pledge. and at all the ceremonies and school functions, the principal or a coach will ask everyone to bow their heads and he/she will pray aloud, i love it and so do my children, and it's a public school. and there is never any violence or big problems at this school, could it be because we haven't kicked god out?

Answer 8

Prayer was NEVER taken out of public schools. MANDATORY PRAYER was taken out of public schools.

Get your facts straight pls.

Answer 9

I believe our country cannot call its self free like it does and try to prevent us talking about our very reason of existance, that takes our freedom, they made a law a long time ago for the seperation of church and state but that was made so the state would stay out of the church's, but as politicians would have it they said no God in school, they twisted it around and took our very freedom, It was made to protect the church from all the crazy polititians that so frequently are in everyones business, but they assumed it was to take peoples right to have God with them in school, the good thing is we can pray to God through our soul through Jesus Christ when we have the Holy Spirit, the down side, it keeps up from witnessing as we should in the schools.

Answer 10

Shaker. Since there is no Shaker church left (just 4 members), there's no one to use it as a recruiting tool.