Prayer Back in US Public Schools

disciple2011 · Dec 28, 2011

If led prayer was allowed again what prayer should it be?

A. a catholic prayer
B. a protestant prayer
C. a orthodox christian prayer
D. a orthodox jewish prayer
E. a non-orthodox jewish prayer
F. a sunni muslim prayer
G. a shi'a muslim prayer
H. a shinto prayer
I. a wiccan prayer
J. a buddist prayer
K. a zoroastrian prayer
L. a indigenous native prayer
M. a non-denominational/theistic prayer

I am curious what king and why you think one should be better than another?

Paulos23 · Dec 28, 2011

When was prayer removed from school? Students can pray all the time.

Or do you mean school led prayer over the loudspeakers? In that case I don't see why you would want it at all. Can't have any school led prayers without it looking like the school supports that religion.

roach · Dec 28, 2011

disciple2011 said:
If led prayer was allowed again what prayer should it be?

A. a catholic prayer
B. a protestant prayer
C. a orthodox christian prayer
D. a orthodox jewish prayer
E. a non-orthodox jewish prayer
F. a sunni muslim prayer
G. a shi'a muslim prayer
H. a shinto prayer
I. a wiccan prayer
J. a buddist prayer
K. a zoroastrian prayer
L. a indigenous native prayer
M. a non-denominational/theistic prayer

I am curious what king and why you think one should be better than another?

dumb question- assumes alot, don't it?

keith99 · Dec 28, 2011

Wiccan, but only if led skyclad by a hot female teacher!

JustMeSee · Dec 28, 2011

N. A Pastafarian prayer.

No school led prayer, please.

Mling · Dec 28, 2011

I prayed in school all the time.

suzybeezy · Dec 28, 2011

Prayer doesn't need to be put back in the schools, it needs to be put back in the homes!

GryffinSong · Dec 28, 2011

The only possible thing I would support is a moment of silence. Any attempt to put an actual, spoken aloud prayer into school is unfair to many of the students who believe differently, and is therefore unacceptable.

Jro · Dec 28, 2011

GryffinSong said:
The only possible thing I would support is a moment of silence. Any attempt to put an actual, spoken aloud prayer into school is unfair to many of the students who believe differently, and is therefore unacceptable.

What about the noisy students?

jackmt · Dec 29, 2011

There ought to be no Department of Education to make such decisions. It is unconstitutional. Let education devolve to the states severally (see the 10th Amendment), and to the localities. Let the people in each jurisdiction decide, not the federal bureaucracy. Then people can move where there are others of like mind.

DaisyDay · Dec 29, 2011

disciple2011 said:
If led prayer was allowed again what prayer should it be?

A. a catholic prayer
B. a protestant prayer
C. a orthodox christian prayer
D. a orthodox jewish prayer
E. a non-orthodox jewish prayer
F. a sunni muslim prayer
G. a shi'a muslim prayer
H. a shinto prayer
I. a wiccan prayer
J. a buddist prayer
K. a zoroastrian prayer
L. a indigenous native prayer
M. a non-denominational/theistic prayer

I am curious what king and why you think one should be better than another?

As a Unitarian, I think the answer is obvious - a Unitarian prayer!

Whisper of Hope · Dec 29, 2011

Christian children will always pray in school. There is absolutely nothing that the secular, ungodly can do about that.

As far as corporate prayer is concerned, once a revival spreads throughout this nation, than the tide will turn and G-d will begin to bless this nation again. The Church here in America needs to wake up, repent, and turn back to G-d. And once this is done, the Church will have more influence in this country and we will reclaim it for Christ. There will be no more laws protecting the slaughter of unborn children, the protecting of the homosexual perversion, or the protection of inappropriate content, and all the other abominations.

Desk trauma · Dec 29, 2011

WhisperofHope said:
Christian children will always pray in school. There is absolutely nothing that the secular, ungodly can do about that.

Christian, and all other religious, children in the US have their rights to pray in school protected by federal law. All the kids who want to pray are able to do so now and even form extra curricular clubs for that purpose. What they are not allowed to do is disrupt school to pray nor have the administration of the school endorse their prayer one way or there other.

WhisperofHope said:
As far as corporate prayer is concerned, once a revival spreads throughout this nation, than the tide will turn and G-d will begin to bless this nation again. The Church here in America needs to wake up, repent, and turn back to G-d. And once this is done, the Church will have more influence in this country and we will reclaim it for Christ.

When your religious has a resurgence I should expect a repeal of the first amendment and a general attack on religious liberty?

Mling · Dec 29, 2011

WhisperofHope said:
Christian children will always pray in school. There is absolutely nothing that the secular, ungodly can do about that.

Nothing we want to do about it, either. As long as prayer remains freely chosen and private, extremely few people have any objection to it.

As far as corporate prayer is concerned, once a revival spreads throughout this nation, than the tide will turn and G-d will begin to bless this nation again. The Church here in America needs to wake up, repent, and turn back to G-d. And once this is done, the Church will have more influence in this country and we will reclaim it for Christ.

How do you plan to "reclaim" it? What will the claim consist of, and how will you handle people who don't want to go along with it?

keith99 · Dec 29, 2011

DaisyDay said:
As a Unitarian, I think the answer is obvious - a Unitarian prayer!

Since if forced to choose a denomination I would likely pick The Old Prussian Union Church I would be guided by the actions of one of its more famous pastors. No lead prayer unless the class athiest requests it!

Figuring out the pastor is not that difficult, bonus points for knowing the 'class athiest'.

selfinflikted · Dec 29, 2011

Mling said:
How do you plan to "reclaim" it? What will the claim consist of, and how will you handle people who don't want to go along with it?

Good question.

hollyda · Dec 29, 2011

Umm, I remember praying as often as I liked in school. I was in a drum and bugle corps and we had a prayer before every performance. And there was morning prayer at the flagpole every day.

The Paul · Dec 29, 2011

WhisperofHope said:
Christian children will always pray in school. There is absolutely nothing that the secular, ungodly can do about that.

As far as corporate prayer is concerned, once a revival spreads throughout this nation, than the tide will turn and G-d will begin to bless this nation again. The Church here in America needs to wake up, repent, and turn back to G-d. And once this is done, the Church will have more influence in this country and we will reclaim it for Christ. There will be no more laws protecting the slaughter of unborn children, the protecting of the homosexual perversion, or the protection of inappropriate content, and all the other abominations.

The people who are worried the government is trying to take their freedom are such an unbelievable threat to their own freedom.

Inept · Dec 29, 2011

Prayer in school is absolutely fine. Led prayer however is not.

disciple2011 · Dec 29, 2011

Paulos23 said:
When was prayer removed from school? Students can pray all the time.

Or do you mean school led prayer over the loudspeakers? In that case I don't see why you would want it at all. Can't have any school led prayers without it looking like the school supports that religion.

Led prayer of course, but you are right there is prayer allowed in school. But I just wanted that nice broad way of saying it because that is how conservatives seem to like saying it.

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