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School Prayer

losman

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I have been skimming a few religious sites and I notice that so many feel that School Prayer is some kind of Magic Pill that will solve all our problems in school and life. What is their reasoning and why is prayer going to stop all the problems when all the religion in our world has yet to solve these problems in the outside world?
 
It's just another way for the fundies to push their theocratic agenda....

Prayer in school will do nothing but waste time, and irritate some.
 
It's one of them there logical fallacies at work again. Perhaps post hoc.

Our kids have a lot of problems, and many of them began after forced Christian prayer was banned in schools. Therefore, if we just put God back in the school, our kids will straighten out, and June and Ward Cleaver will move in two doors down, and the worst kid on the block will be that naughty Eddie Haskell.

Of course, this presumes that it was the prayer that kept kids in check in the first place.
 
The usual line put out by the various fundies is "everything started to go bad when they took prayer out of the schools."

Of course, there are thousands of schools run by various religious organizations, where students pray on a daily basis...Evidently insufficient to overcome the influence of naughty, atheistic public schools.
 
Prayer has never disturbed me. Some people feel calm and attain some inner serenity, kind of like meditating, so I think praing is a great thing for those who has someone to pray to. But of course, it's kind of pointless forcing someone to pray to a God they don't believe in, and if they believe in other Gods than the one they are supposed to pray to it would be quite degrading.

In other words, school prayer might be useful in a school where all children are believing members of the same religion. And how are you supposed to find that out?
 
slingblade said:
It's one of them there logical fallacies at work again. Perhaps post hoc.

Our kids have a lot of problems, and many of them began after forced Christian prayer was banned in schools. Therefore, if we just put God back in the school, our kids will straighten out, and June and Ward Cleaver will move in two doors down, and the worst kid on the block will be that naughty Eddie Haskell.

Of course, this presumes that it was the prayer that kept kids in check in the first place.
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