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Originally Posted by gomoho
But they also don't say the Pledge of Allegiance anymore. Just saying Kids were better educated and behaved when we had values and personal responsibility in our schools.
Our country was built on Judeo/Christian values whether you want to admit it or not. Why is it okay to start a session of Congress with a prayer, but not the school day. Why does our money say "in God we trust". This is what our country was built on and it seems when we started turning our back on these ideas is when we started going to hell in a handbasket. Believe me I am not a born-again religious zealot, but I do believe when we as a country started turning our back on a Higher Power we are now seeing the consequences. Just an opinion of a boomer that lived through drugs, sex and rock-and-roll who scratches her head thinking "what the hell did we do"???
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We canT start school with a prayer because we would never agree on which prayer or god we want to pray to. How do I know this? In Tennessee the Muslims were trying to build a mosque and it finally got built but not until it was fire bombed a couple of times during the process. We as Americans like to wave our constitution and bill of rights around when it pertains to our beliefs are not to quick to support those who have equal rights but just not the same as ours. We scream about a Muslim outreach center being built down the street from the World Trade Center but we have no problems with the gentlemens clubs and bars in between both sites.
We don't say the pledge anymore but that has nothing to do with religious values. Worse yet we don't teach simple civics or government anymore either.