What year did religious symbols become banned in schools?
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You are created in Gods image, until they ban you they can't get rid of them all....
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Back then they were taught to Read, write, and do arithmetic, now it is feel goodism, they don't care what you learn as long as your feeling don't get hurt.\n\nAlso back then Christianity was in the school, now it's not.\n\nWonder why there are so many school shootings now?
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I'd rather we didn't force our students to pledge their allegiance to anything.  that is the domain of Fascists.  But if we must, I'd prefer children thought more about the Constitution than the flag.\n\nAs for "under God", it was added 60 years after the pledge was first written, by religious zealots that specifically wanted a prayer. And the last I checked, "Godly principles" were all about Kings, something our gov't was specifically designed to prevent.  Unless there is some portion of the Bible you can cite that supports a Gov't not run by a King, shutup about your "Godly" nonsense.
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In the 1940's all schools had morning prayers.\n\nAt that time a black pewrson could not pee in a gas station or enter many restaurants, schools, and other places.\n\nWas the morals better then with all of the Christian prayers?
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It's only a small minority of schools where prayer is banned, and we Christians can always send our children to Christian schools anyway if we have to, so your question is moot.
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Taking mandatory prayer out of the schools is a good thing. (No, I'm not a Satanic worshiper). The reason being is because there are so many different cultures in America, along with so many different religions. I wouldn't want my children "forced" to say a prayer in any religion. \n\nAt my High School, every morning, the FCA and teens from different churches would meet together at the flagpoles, hold hands around it and say a prayer. There was never anyone who tried to "ban" this activity because they were not imposing their religious belief on others. \nReligion will never fully be removed from the lives of children. Most of History tells a great deal about different religions...the rise and falls of. \n\nHowever, I do believe it is wrong to take "one nation under God" out of the pledge of allegiance. They already have it that a kid doesn't have to say that line if they, or their parents do not believe in God. \n\nIf a person wants their child to be raised in a religious environment, then their parents should send them to a private school based on their religion. In the mean time, pulic schools need to stay unbiased in religion because so many different religions attend public school. \n\nOh, and no, I don't believe Satan has won. He will never win. He is no God. He is a fallen angel, but like us, he is still a creation of God. He's like a little boy at the Mall who throws a fit because his mother won't buy him a piece of candy. He gets punished, but still sulks in the corner...mad now because he didn't get his way and that he was punished. This is how I view Satan. \n\nI hope I have answered your question. Best wishes.
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schools no longer are allowed to teach information like this,  they are required to teach the lie that there is a seperation of Church and State.\n\nPublic schools are now used to teach the agenda of the non christians, in science and evolution, to gay rights agenday and more.
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This is a very good point, and i have actually researched it before.  In the Freedom of Religion amendment, there are two clauses: the establishment clause, and the free excercise clause.  The establishment clause is the separation of church and state, or in other words, the government cannot establish or promote any one relgion.  In the free excercise clause, the government cannot ban any one religion.  Oddly enough, atheism is only considered a religion in the free excercise clause, and not in the establishment clause.  This is a sort of loophole that allows the religion to establish atheism in schools, without going against our rights to freedom of religion.  Pretty messed up, huh?
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It's still allowed, as far as I know, in about 15 US States, mostly in the South.  The only ones I know for definite are Texas and Mississippi.\n\nHere in the UK it's been outlawed in all schools, public and private, for ten years or so.
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religion doesn't belong in school
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Public schools in America do not teach the theology of or endorse any religion. You can go to private religious schools which have special classes each day dedicated to the religion it's founded upon.\n\nIn public school, however, you may be taught the history of and the social issues surrounding major religions in a World Cultures class. I took a class in high school that taught the stories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from a purely historical pov.
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Religion into sexual violence and oppressing kids. Look at the history of christianity
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There is nothing the governement can do to stop prayer in schools. The Establishment Clause, however, prevents the government from sanctioning prayer in public schools. Christianity was traditionally (and probably still is) the unofficial, official religion of the U.S. However, the founding fathers, all of whom recognized the downfalls of a state sanctioned church, specifically wrote the First Amendment "to prohibit the federal government from declaring and financially supporting a national religion, such as existed in many other countries at the time of the nation's founding.  It is far less clear whether the Establishment Clause was also intended to prevent the federal government from supporting Christianity in general.  Proponents of a narrow interpretation of the clause point out that the same First Congress that proposed the Bill of Rights also opened its legislative day with prayer and voted to apportion federal dollars to establish Christian missions in the Indian lands.  On the other hand, persons seeing a far broader meaning in the clause point to writings by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison suggesting the need to establish "a wall of separation" between church and state.\n...\nThe question of school-sponsored prayer has, of course, proven highly controversial.  In the landmark case of Engel v Vitale in 1962, the Court ruled that New York's practice of beginning school days with a prayer drafted by school officials violated the Establishment Clause.  This is the case, the Court said, whether or not students are given the option of not participating in the prayer.  Following Engel, the Court has faced a whole series of prayer-related cases in the public school context raising issues such a prayer in special circumstances (e.g., graduation ceremonies), periods for silent meditation or silent prayer, and student-initiated prayer.  In general, the Court has demonstrated a willingness to strike down any practices that might be likely to be perceived either as coercive or as a state endorsement of religion."\n\nIf you want to pray in public school, then pray. If you don't want to pray in public school, then don't. If you are a public school teacher and pray in school, do it silently and don't ask students to join you.
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yep, the church suppressed education, art, science, medical practices, etc.
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Prayer should be and is allowed in public schools by the students.  They point were prayer is considered to be crossing the 1st Amendment line is were it is an officially endorsed function of the school.  Such as if the principal led the students in prayer every day.  However not allowing a student to pray in school is a blatant violation of both free speech and freedom of religion.
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Where were you when government class taught the seperation of church and state?  I am so tired of hearing about not praying in school.  No one I know ever did except the small country schools years ago.  The founding fathers didn't want one religion to run things so it had no place in government!\nIf there was to be prayer in school, it would take forever: Christian prayer, Buddhist, Wiccan invocation, Hindu, Jewish, etc.  There can never be just one!\nI don't know how you can say God has been kicked out.  Come to Northern California, Texas, Utah, etc.  There are churches on every corner where I live.
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The phrase "separation of church and state" does not appear in the Constitution, but rather is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a group identifying themselves as the Danbury Baptists. In that letter, Jefferson referred to a "wall of separation between church and state."\n\nIf say, "prayer in school" was enforced by law, it would be unconstitutional because it would violate the first part of your quote. Laws cannot respect an establishment of religion. In essence, that's what separation of church and state is. (ANY church - not just Christian.) Prayer in school is an ESTABLISHMENT of religion.\n\nI have no personal feeling, I'm just speaking about the law.