USA says "In God we Trust" but ............?

Question

WRITTEN BY A 15 yr. old SCHOOL KID IN ARIZONA :

New Pledge of Allegiance (TOTALLY AWESOME) !

Since the Pledge of Allegiance
and
The Lord's Prayer
are not allowed in most
public schools anymore
Because the word "God" is mentioned....
A kid in Arizona wrote the poem below

NEW School prayer :
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

Does USA still trust in God?

Answer 1

I do !! The poem is cute and sorry to say, accurate. If we deny God He may very well deny us. Wake up people !!

Answer 2

What you're asking means that American human beings say some thing greater like "God bless the USA of a, and don't bless all and sundry else." i do no longer think of i've got ever heard all and sundry say something like that. If somebody sneezes and that i say "God bless you," ought to all the human beings interior the room be indignant that i did no longer ask God to bless them, too? yet I do agree that there is not any explanation why God would choose our usa over the different. even if, we would desire to truly use each and all of the help we can get! (you're authentic concerning the Knights of Columbus element...yet how do you clarify the "...they are endowed by using their author with particular unalienable Rights..." word from the 2nd sentence of the statement of Independence? possibly no longer explicitly Christian, yet that truly means that the adult men who wrote and signed that rfile believed in some variety of superb being.)

Answer 3

Prayer in schools might not be allowed for teachers, but they cannot deny it to the students. My son is 12 in middle school and he is part of a prayer group who meets on Tuesday and Thursday before school starts in the school theater and they have a 10 - 15 minute prayer meeting/bible study ...in the school. The girl teaching the study is in 8th grade and is only 13. One of the teachers is in charge of the group , but doesn't participate. I don't know how they got around the law that way, but it is happening every week. And when this girl goes to high school , she is planning on starting a group there and my son is going to take over in middle school, until my other son gets there in two years.
God always makes a way for us, if we are serious about His business. He is worthy to be praised.

Answer 4

Praying has never been banned from public school. It just can't be endorsed by the school itself or interfere with the other students. So praying silently or getting together with other students for group prayer in a private location is perfectly fine.

And I've never heard anything about the Pledge of Allegiance not being allowed in school. The only thing I know is that students have the right to refuse to speak it due to religious beliefs.

In short... whoever wrote this stupid poem needs to get their facts straight.

Answer 5

I think that it is really sad that I am supposed to accept everything that anyone does or thinks but the minuet that I say or do anything "Christian" I am criticized or demeaned. If I have to tolerate gays, Jews, goths, emos, and every other school of thought out there why don't they have to tolerate me and my opinions? I may not agree with some of these groups, but I can tolerate them. Why do they have the right to free speech and I as a middle class white male don't. Why has political correctness turned into bash the white Christian male? I am tired of it, and I think we need to change this country into what it can and should be, equality for everyone.

Answer 6

You are correct. And as for the argument that it hasn't been banned, just can't be supported - that's not true. I KNOW from experience of being suspended over it.
It's a sad day indeed because the constitution prohibits government from making any laws which prohibit the free exercise of religion.

Answer 7

i want to say as americans ,as human beings and as a world in trouble we have all our lives did the pleadge in school and we have every right to do so we are not allowed to go to other countrys and change there ways of life,rules and what they believe in why is it we have to change for the foreinors that are moving in to our country and besides that theres alot of other more important things to focus on then this don't you think

Answer 8

People can do what they want and believe what they want, but I don't want anyone forcing my kid to pray in school.

Sorry to tell you, but we're not a nation of Christianity. We may be a nation of God, but lot's different people from all walks of life believe in a single God. We're a nation of religious freedom, and you have the freedom to worship how you choose as long as it's not affecting anyone else.

Answer 9

the ones that get offended is the ones that don't belong here
i dont thrust my beliefs on others but i do think we should be able to pray or thank god when and where we chose to

also the guy who chimed in befor me you can't pray in any i went if they heard you pray you would get saspened just amigian what would happin if you got a group of people together

Answer 10

cool I guess. People should just get over being offended. If everybody was spattered with what we now see as offensive from the time they are kids til adults, we wouldn't have these pansy *** people crying about something like a prayer. I'm athiest and see no probs with "god" or any other religios mentionings.

Answer 11

Our Country was founded on Christian principles. The children were taught to read so that they could read the Holy Bible. Congress always, and still does, convene with prayer.
This country still believes in God but there are a few atheists who would like you to believe that this is not so.
Do not allow a few to take God out of our Country!
Stand up and let your Christian voice be heard!