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yes by all means....was put there for a reason and it should stay.

Absolutely !

Without a doubt!!! This country was founded on the belief of our father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Thomas Jefferson made it mandatory that the Bible be required reading in school. Who incidentally coined the phrase "Separation of Church and State", which has been polluted for generations. It is NOT in the constitution!!! Nowhere in the constitution will you find the words...separation..church..or state.

Yes It should be.

Yes....A simple short prayer for peace and blessings. Not bible study because we should include all faiths. I don't think children should be chastised for not participating though.

Absolutely!

Wow, with these comments, I'm just glad that the majority cannot veto my constitutionally protected rights.

Kids pray anyway. Why does it have to be "official"? Right before a test Lord knows I pray! ;)

I think it is amazing that people act like prayer NOT being in school is working....are you kidding?!!---and the murders keep going up....

Prayer in schools???? What!? Just look at the question on which is your favourite philosopher? An unbelievable 56% couldn't even recognise the philosophers' names! These were great thinkers in their time, immortalised through their great writing - yet ignorance of even their names on such scale is depressingly astonishing.

Prayer is the last thing that needs to be taught in schools. Reason and the application of reason to knowledge should be prioritised if we are to have healthy thinkers among future generations.

i think prayer is healthy.

Absolutely! Children should be taught to believe in God. A simple prayer to include peace in the world. Also the pledge of Allegiance.

Not prayer in the schools, but I am in favor of churches making much more use of the release-time provisions for children and teens to leave school each week to take a Bible class off-campus at a nearby church or other non-school location.

Children should not be brainwashed. The whole point of school is to open one's mind to learning. Not to close it to reason!

Children's Minds' should not be brainwashed????

While I agree,why dont we put Intelligent Design in schools?????Our Children ARE being brainwashed.....

Prayer is a civilizing element in our society. There has been a major difference since prayer was not allowed.

You've got to be kidding...Prayer IS allowed in school as long as it is not Christian prayer.

i agree, no brainwashing for kids.

Yes

I was a HS teacher for over 30 years.

Prayer was and always has been permitted in schools. Only MANDATORY, MASS PRAYER led by an authority figure (read: teacher) was banned.

I wonder how "accepting" evangelical Christians (and these are the folks pushing for it) would be if the school their child went to was predominantly Muslim, Jewish, catholic, or some other religion and he or she was forced to stand and recite a prayer from another religion, or to sit silently during such a prayer looking like the proverbial odd man out. I doubt they would so readily push for mandatory prayer under those conditions despite the fact that it would be "putting God back in our schools".

Prayer should remain personal except in venues of like-minded and willing persons (i.e. churches, revivals, social gatherings, etc.). Mandatory prayer is an anathema to both freedom and true spirituality.

No. What will prayer do? It'll only divide communities. Besides which of the fictional "gods" do we pray too? Or, do we allow everyone their own time to pray to their own God?

For Sammy! The I agree the children should not be chastised,

but they definately should be taught.

The parents of today need to get off the couch, stop doing the booze and drugs, and teach there kids.

Hey AlFitz614 , I hope your constitutional rights include prayer.

"If you pray, He will come"...

Aaron, Freedom of religion , no matter what denomination, should include prayer.

Oh lukewake; you'll know when the lightning strikes, if your not with God.

Hey ybfree; did you forget this;

One Nation Under God.

You bet your sweet Bippie, it should be official. We seem to foget about our for-fathers, and how this country grew.

With God !

marketingpro, You are so right !

For Kevin8118;

Brainwashed, yes; brainwashed into crime.

Wake up , He will return, and we will all now down to the Lord. Even you my friend!

Yes blytheex, a very big difference, and it is not a good one.

Prayer (faith) is at best misguided and at worst evil.

Even my five-year-old knows not to believe in things without proof.

OF COURSE NOT-Obviously the prayers are going to be Christian! What about all the Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus? What about them? Should we find Jesus just for you guys to say some prayers at the beginning of the day. I seem to recall there being something somewhere in the New Testament about not displaying and showing off your faith.

Also, if you think that our founding fathers were staunchly Christian you obviously don't know anything about American history. Jefferson and the group were "Christian" because that was what the times were like back then. Jefferson was actually an atheist, along with many other prominent figures. If you don't believe me, research it instead of sticking your nose in a 2000 year old fairytale.

Don't PRAY in my school, and I won't THINK in your church!

I don't think so. I know that there MIGHT be a Devil; I don't care. He's powerful too, isn't he? And he seems to be able to rival the maybe existing God. Different people have different religions, and the Constitution states 1) freedom of religion and 2) a separation from Church and State. Private schools are allowed to teach religion because it is separated from the state. Public schools, funded by the government, are therefore not allowed to teach religion. I myself am an agnostic, and as Charles Darwin said, "The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."

Thomas Jefferson didn't really believe in GOd, either. He says that "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." And everything about drugs, murders, whatever-it doesn't connect with prayer! It's human instinct-in fact, survival instinct-for someone to want to go ahead in life, and do what they want to do. Mother5 said that children should be taught to believe in God. Why? We are living in a world where science/technology are prevailing in people's lives. There are many agnostics and atheists in the scientific world; yet they are successful in life. God isn't the basis of everything anymore.

Personally, I think that God was made on the basis of all other religions; to try and find a reason to all the things in the natural world that people couldn't explain at the time. In Greek mythology, they created all the different gods for the different natural phenomenons. In Christianity, they created one "almighty" being. It's the same.

Prayer to Stop School Violence,and the Boycott

I all ways love it when I read stories as this and some people jump around and say Oh, there is nothing that can be done about it. Did you know that when the first Laws against Prayer in Schools came about, it was all most unchallenged in Court? As for women,a lot of men do not understand how a woman feels and I wish to share a short short, As we advance into the 22nd century, a lot of woman are so connected to the past of a day that the sense of valuer for her is becoming lost and the respect in that concept will be only ancient in origin.

Before I share, try to understand that I am of a time and a race of people that have faith in that which has become lost. What we are doing will only be a pin prick against the system, but it will....

Please allow me to show you how deep this issue is within a Matrix {of days of the past} that some do not understand. One must be of a time before the Laws created against God through the prayer in school, and to see what has took place for 30 years because of this Law of no prayer at school,and now look where we are at today. I have watched for over 40 years children die in school and this is not a myth. As a child and to feel protected by God, a myth that some seem to say I need to prove He lives.

Because of the diversity between different Faiths, it is important to remember that the goal is to bring back only that 10 second moment of silence, of Prayer. To bring in different Faiths and Bible teachings will only cluster the goal.

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All so, Join us in the;

"International Boycott Of The Arabic Drug Empire"

When I wrote my first " Boycott" I just wanted to see the trickle effect it would have, with out stepping into a forth dimension and having my in site lost. To bring Life to hope where there is none in our schools through a Boycott and words of truth....

The Arabic Drug Empire is the only one in the world that seeks to kill every last man woman and child in the world in order for their chosen few can repopulate the world....

Our goal is for our words to go around the world, to be heard in the streets to the country until it reaches the White House and shakes the very foundation of this Government Institution. It is not what we say that counts in as much as, it is what we do not say that builds words of truth.

Some say that a Boycott is a waist of time, but it would depend on what is said and how to merge this Boycott into the Violence At Our Schools, to understand we wish to live and we fight with words of truth to in force our right, because we face inhalation through the miss use of a faith.

Henry Massingale

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