What has happened to our young since prayers were taken out of the public schools?

FYI don't use your actual name on YA, just sayin.

As a child being told to pray, neither made things better or worse. No one can force prayer and anything forced is not received well.

Prayer in school has nothing to do with the American foundation. My birthright here is: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. If praying makes me happy or free, ok, but if I'm told I must do this, I must do that, freedom is canceled.

Our future generations are being raped because we hate others for exercising their freedom. Worrying over prayer in school while government is stealing what society believes to be life, money. Government has and is plundering, as the church of men, when our children are paying them, it will be rape.

No one can stop anyone from praying. Think for your self.

Georgie Washington has it correct, the religion of Jesus Christ, not the great whore or lie we have been taught by men since the beginning. Read and think for yourself.

Verifiable proof of your error exists. Look it up.

Teenage fornication and teen pregnancies are in direct relationship to the level of christianity in a given state. Texas and Mississippi - strongly christian states, have the highest teen pregnancy rate. VT, the most atheist, has the lowest, as does New England and the Northwest - all becoming less and less religious, so fewer and fewer teen pregnancies.

The same holds true for divorce rates and quality of education. The south's educational system is notoriously horrible. I just moved to SC and didn't know that so many functionally uneducated people existed in the whole country, let alone one little state.

So, statistics show that if you want to end social ills, you should end christianity - which means keeping prayers out of schools.

Your logical fallacy is:

False Cause

"You presumed that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.

One such mistake in thinking is the '*** hoc ergo propter hoc' (with this, therefore because of this) fallacy in which someone presumes that because things are happening together that one thing is therefore the cause of the other. The mistake lies in ignoring the possibility that there may be a common cause to both things happening, or, as per the example below, that the two things in question have no causal relationship at all, and their apparent connection is just a coincidence. Another common variation is the 'post hoc ergo propter hoc' (after this, therefore because of this) fallacy in which a causal connection is assumed because one thing happens prior to another thing happening, therefore the second thing must be caused by the first thing.

Example: Pointing to a fancy chart, Roger shows how temperatures have been rising over the past few centuries, whilst at the same time the numbers of pirates have been decreasing; thus pirates cool the world and global warming is a hoax."

http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/false-cause

"Our future generations are being deprived of any meaningful existence and the opportunity to participate openly in this great heritage, seeking help, strength, and endurance from God as did their forefathers."

Children can go to church any time they want. They can pray any time they want including in schools. Just because a teacher can't stand in front of the class and make everybody pray to a particular god doesn't mean that "prayers were taken out of schools".

Would you appreciate a school official making your child pray to Allah, Satan or Zeus? They why do you demand other children be forced to pray to your god? Don't you believe in Freedom of Religion?

As a result we have gone from a moral based society to a legal based society.

In more and more cases many laws do not have the moral and ethical foundation to make them sound.

At the stroke of a pen a politician can make what was not legal yesterday legal today - simply because it fits with their beliefs.

It can be argued that some of these things were going on anyway and that may be so. It is one thing for things to go on and very much another to have them sanctioned by the state.

In my ,opinion what has happened is exactly what you stated and stated very well. I don't think prayer in school is the only factor to the demise of our children's morals although it is a main factor. Both parents working, children come home from school with no Mother at home and are left to run wild. I also believe that parents just don't want to be bothered with correcting or punnishing because they are just to tired.When my daughter was in school the rule was, you sit down and do your homework before you go out side and play. She was Honor Role Student all through school. I also don't believe in this no spanking thing. When I messed up, I got spanked (not whipped or abused). It didn't hurt me and it didn't hurt my daughter. Infact, she has a degree and works for the Department of Corrections. Prayer is very, very important but not ther only factor. I think it's deplorable that prayer has been removed from school.

You mean compulsive prayer. Which is completely unconstitutional. But there is nothing, nothing at all, that can stop a student from praying in school. In fact, the exact same amendment that stops teachers from inflicting prayer on non-religious students stops them from preventing religious students from praying.

It's called 'freedom of religion'.

Teenage fornication has not increased. The difference now is, we don't marry off our 12 yr old little girls.

That's the parents fault if they sit there and let their kids cuss at them like that. Mine has NEVER done that to me....... and my family is atheist.

Public school system is NOT your church. That is up to you and other parents to teach your kids your religion. It is not up to everyone in the US to pay taxes so that only YOUR religion gets taught.

You are going to have to come up with something better than that.

Removing superstitious rituals, like prayer, from schools is not the problem. The problem is those children go home to irrational, superstitious parents. Why do you think those children are rebelling against their parents? What moderately educated, rational thinking person would want superstitious parents?

Prayer was never taken out of the public schools. Anyone can pray anytime he/she likes in school. Teachers just can't lead the prayers. Morality started going into the toilet in America when radical anti-gay activist Anita Bryant began attacking law-abiding, taxpaying, gay Americans in the mid-70's and redefining her sinful behavior as "morality."

Jesus said that prayers are not to be

a matter of public display.

What has happened is that religious

crap has diverted us from spirituality.