There are some truths in what has been posted by Jim and Jennifer. However, the main problem I see is inconsistency in applying Christian beliefs and the Constituion in a fair way to all races. We as a nation killed native Americans in order to steal what they possessed, their land. We as a nation, including the Church as a whole, stood by and allowed the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize black Americans, hanging them, burning them, placing burning crosses in their home's yards. We as a nation allowed open discrimination against blacks and I was old enough to witness some of it and wondered as a child why this was allowed to take place.
Women were viewed as property more so than as human beings when this country was founded, much of that coming from what was viewed as a proper Christian perspective. Women were finally given the right to vote in 1920.
While all of this was happening, prayer was active in our schools, God was allowed and flourished in our schools.
I think we have reaped what we have sown. Unfair racial and gender bias, murder, lies, stealing, etc. All under the guise of a Christian nation.
To say you never heard of murders of students before prayer was taken out of schools is to say you belong to the privileged white race which never suffered at the hands of the privileged white race.
There are Christians in public schools. To say that God favors private Christian schools over public schools because of prayer and religious freedom is a bit simplistic in my view. I suspect that the reason that private schools are doing better, if in fact they are, is due to the economic status of those families in those schools. My guess is that they have a good income, probably most have two parents who are stable. A child growing up in such a household is naturally going to be more secure and stable than a child without these advantages. And it is the public schools who have the majority of students coming from poor, disadvantaged families.
The thing you see Christ angered about the most in scripture is hypocrasy, saying one thing but practicing another.
I say all of this to try and bring some truth to this thread. You may not like what I have said, but it is the truth.
There is not a lot of prayer in schools any longer and kids are allowed to do things today which I couldn't get away with when I was attending. But, to lay the blame for our current woes on this is not realistic. There was a heck of a lot more injustice, including murder, lies, and deceit, taking place looooooong before prayer was taken out of school.
Time to stop looking at the world through distorted lenses. If you want to blame someone else for the current status, I suggest we all take a good look at ourselves first.
As a nation, founded upon great principles of freedom and religion, we have largely failed to live up to those principles by our conduct. If we had shown respect and love to our Neighbor, I suspect prayer and God would still be in schools.
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