Over at Rogue Sun 2.0, my buddy Raymond takes some humor spam and makes more than a few excellent points about the whole prayer-in-school issue
What EXACTLY do you Christian Right people want? Verbal compliance with a rule? I know you want all the Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, New Agers, Catholics, Orthodox, Agnostics, Atheists, and other souls deemed lost to convert. But specifically in school, and assuming that the kid hasn?t had his or her religion ploughed under by you, what is it you expect? At best the child is lipsynching to whatever is coming over the PA system, and you know if they don?t participate they?re going to hear about it from their peers. If that?s what you?re after, then fine, but it?s not very, um, Christian. What did Jesus mean when he said, ?Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven?? How is that supposed to happen when you?re sticking them in a situation, in His name, where they?re going to be singled out by all the little WASPy kids for not being what they are?
Ummm, what he said.
I’ve never quite understood what supporters of prayer in school think they are accomplishing. At the most its mind-numbing repitition by 7 year olds. At its worst, its brain washing. I can’t understand why any modern religion would want its followers to come to it via anything other than full and complete rational acceptance.
