How did enacting laws that forbid prayer or any reference to God affect public schooling?

Cultural Erosion

In the U.S. and Canada it took away some of our culture. When I went to school there were several races and when we sat with head bowed saying the Lord's Prayer these students were allowed to sit silent while we said that prayer but did stand when we sang the National Anthem of Canada. There were absolutely NO problems! The Asians would go to our schools, then attend Chinese School and the Jewish people attended our classes and then went for Jewish teachings later. There was absolutely no problem until some mucky-muck in our governments not so long ago decided in an absence of brain cells that things weren't to his/her liking.

If we visit other countries of the world we are expected to respect their culture (even if we don't believe in their religious beliefs) and also the laws of that country. When immigrants come to the Western countries to live they have the freedom to have their own temples or churches of worship, but, Western countries should retain their religious beliefs, traditions and all other aspects of our culture or we cease to be a free country. They have their own cultural centers, festivals, etc., and that's what makes a "melting pot" in the Western countries exciting as we can learn from each other without changing our own belief system in our country. Why Western governments have decided to lack brain cells is beyond any reasoning I can come up with, but, it's wrong and it's taken away much of what many of us stand for and our forefathers fought for.

When I found out that prayer was taken out of the school system, and that Merry Christmas had been changed to "Seasons Greetings" (even written on store windows) I did a little investigating. I asked Asians and Punjabi's and they said it never bothered them and they couldn't understand why it was changed either. So, many Canadians are fighting to get prayer back in school, and most of us still say "Merry Christmas!" It has been quoted that the government of China thinks that Canada are stupid people and sit back and allow their traditions and cultures to go down the tubes. I agree with them! Thankfully, there are some of us that will keep on verbally fighting for the right to keep our own culture so that people from other countries can enjoy it as well as retaining our rights and respecting those that fought for our freedom. Most importantly it's up to all of us to maintain our cultural and religious beliefs for our children, grandchildren and future generations. It gives one hope, a solid feeling of someone watching out for us and strengthens our soul and the backbone of our country.

Marcy

• It produced less paranoid children

• To the contrary, taking prayer out of schools (along with other societal changes) produced more paranoid children. What more proof do we need than the recent massacre at Virginia Tech?

When prayer was in schools, about the worst problems were an occassional fist fight and talking in class. Now, well, we all know what the greatest problems in schools are now. When prayer was in schools and sex was out of schools, there was less - a lot less - sexual activity between children. When prayer and spanking were in schools, ADD and ADHD were not even heard of. When prayer was in schools, teachers had more time to teach and spent less time on classroom management and keeping order. Children graduated high school being able to read and had more self-control. Children killing other children in mass NEVER happened when prayer was in schools!!!

Less paranoid children now that prayer is not in schools? A comparison of children back then with the childen of today proves the opposite!

I'm not saying that taking prayer out of schools is solely responsible for the problems we have with our children today, but it sure did not help.

• People have denied God, and closed the door to his protection by taking prayer out of schools. Its effects? Hostile students are the most obvious.

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Simplified - When the government removed prayer they also removed a sense or moral conviction, right and wrong and accountability.

The effects are: Children disrespecting parents, teachers and societies authority. Sexual perversion and rampant sexual sins, teen pregnancy, rape, murder and no regard for human life. Higher crime, higher illiteracy and no sense of direction or purpose.

It has actually stripped a culture of any consequence for dignity and the santity of human life.

*Think of all the thousands of students enrolled in school, praying for our country, our people, and asking for God's protection and guidence daily...there is no one God would rather answer than children, and we have lost that. How can we possibly not be worse off than we were...

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