(May 8, 2012 at 7:57 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Why not just let kids pray when they want to pray instead of setting up times when *everyone* should pray? I mean its not like they need to be taught how to; "Dear God, blah blah blah, amen.".
How does being forced to do it in a group help in any part of this process? Sure as hell didn't when I was a kid, just made it ten times more awkward.
(P.S. DeeTee, are you ever going to learn how to quote properly? Seriously, this is just tiresome now.)
The real truth is that organized corporate prayer in school is a dominance thing. Just like so many other things Christians do to show dominance and push people around. Someone once said that there's been prayer in school ever since there's been math exams. There's no reason why prayer must be mandatory and public.
BTW corporate public prayer is technically speaking unbiblical. According to the Bible you are supposed to pray humbly and quietly in a closet or something like that. Damn Christians always want to bring it out of the closet.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
