For or Against School Prayer!!!?

Question

I am doing a project on School prayer. I need to know if people are for or against it. Plz just answer For or against with little detail. If you do not know the pros and cons here are some basic ones.

Pros-
-Its a free country. We have freedom of speech, religion and so on in the 1st amendment
-This is a Cristian nation
Cons-
-Not all people are the same religion, some are Atheist, Agnostic, Muslim, and many more how do they choose one that don't a fend the others

TY and This is very helpful to hear others opinion on school prayer! Now I will be more Prepared on My presentation On this, and can answer questions more confidentially!!! Thank you again!!!

Yes I am some what wrong with my Pros

But we(USA) ARE a Christan Nation. On the Dollar we say In God We Trust, In the Pledge We say Under God, and many more thing(look it up).

Answer 1

for, in OK my kids were allowed to pray in the mornings, the kids in that class did better than any other class room.

Answer 2

OK well let me tell you some facts.
1) USA is **NOT** a Christian nation per the Founders (see Treaty of Tripoli 1797 voted unanimously by Congress and President John Adams)....you mention the money and pledge...it says "God"...not Jesus and they were not added till over 100 years AFTER America was formed in order to seperate us from "the godless communists" of the Cold War...so by any intelligent, reasonable, accurate assesment USA is NOT and NEVER HAS BEEN a Christian nation. By the way if we were a christian nation there would be NO freedom of religion.
Anyone wo says different is either misinformed or lying

Now to answer question I am AGAINST school prayer because it is an insult to God, religion, parents, schools and kids.
1) It is ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL per the seperation of church and state.
2) Nothing stops a kid praying but there is no public sponsered/led prayer as it is illegal
3) Kids can pray now if he/she wants but cannot disrupt the schools function (and just about every prayer group issue has been kids trying to pray DURING class or SKIPPING class to "pray")....how are they supposed to learn if they are praying?
4) Religion, morality have ALWAYS been the province of the family and parents...not government and schools and that is how it should remain
5) Have some (pun intended) goddamn respect for God by not being such a diva that you need an audience when you pray. Pray out of humility, faith and respect...not a thirst for fame, kid's nature to disrupt school, or to point out any "outsiders" who don't join in.

Answer 3

First of all, this is NOT a Christian nation. Use that argument, you'd be laughed out of the building by everyone who has a brain. Most of the founding fathers were DEISTS (believed in god but disbelieved in religion) who criticized Christianity. Not only that; you contradict yoursef: if we had freedom of religion, could you really say that we're a Christian nation? The founding fathers (who were escaping religious prosecution at the time) needed to establish that America would be a country free of that issue.

That being said, prayer should be allowed in schools. I don't care if the kid next to me ducks his head during lunch and thanks the lord for his meal. As an atheist, I'm not offended by that at all. However, I do believe that public schools should not have teacher-led or required prayers or whatever. If you want to pray in school on your own, that's your own business. I just shouldn't be forced to pray with you.

Answer 4

Your question needs to be more specific.
Public schools ALREADY allow students to pray if they wish. Current law only stipulates that the school itself can not organize, promote, or participate in such prayers.

So are you asking if the law should remain the same or be changed in order to allow schools (i.e. state and federal government) to promote school prayer?

If you are for changing the law to allow the state and federal governments to promote prayer then the question comes up as to which denomination or which type of prayer do you propose? Once to open the door to one, you would have to allow all.

Government and religion should never mix.

Answer 5

Against.

And your pros aren't pros.

--it's a free country with freedom of speech and religion that's true. But mandatory school prayer violates those freedoms for anyone who is not a Christian.

--The US is not, nor has it ever been, a Christian nation.

Answer 6

Depends on the school. If it's a public school, prayer has no proper place there; there are atheists who attend such schools who would be seriously offended. If it is a private school, the administration can do whatever it pleases, including praying to Beelzebub for all I care.

Aside: This is not a Christian nation; it is a secular nation. There is not (and cannot be) an established religion, Christian or otherwise.

Answer 7

Democrats might want to be antagonistic to voluntary silent prayer in college because they have self belief that "separation of church and state" is contained in the structure. it isn't contained in the structure, yet somewhat from communism. they have self belief that God could play no area in our lives and imagine that when you're allowed to wish in college, then you honestly are organising a state-run faith. this isn't genuine. Our united states of america change into in accordance to prayer and Bible-reading, which Democrats do not imagine could often be allowed.

Answer 8

Against. Why? We live in an extremely ethnically diverse country with all kinds of beliefs and all kinds of wrong attitudes to go with them. These days, kids are getting beat or wasted just for wearing the wrong colors. What kind of violence do you think would break-out with prayers to different religion's deities being offered in home room?

Answer 9

I'm against school-sponsored or teacher-led prayer, which is banned and unconstitutional. Private prayer is fine, as long as it's not disruptive and this is allowed.


Your pros are wrong. Freedom of religion is why school-sponsored prayer is banned, and we are not nor have we ever been a Christian nation.

Answer 10

This is not a Christian nation, it is a secular nation in accordance with the US Constitution.

If people want to pray privately or form some extra curricular prayer group and pray during lunch, or before or after school, I'm fine with that.

Outside of that, there's no place for an official "prayer time," or otherwise officially encouraging or endorsing prayer in school.

Answer 11

I'm all for School Prayer, as long as they're praying to Tyr. If they bring any of the other, FALSE gods into the equation, I can't stand for that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyr
Oh yeah, BTW, our founding fathers just after the battle of Tripoli signed a document stating "America is NOT a Christian Nation." If the founding fathers knew it wasn't a Christian Nation, then why have we tried to turn it into one? Should we rename ourselves Vatican City, or Islamistan?