The Relationship Between State and Church

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Every person has the human right to engage in worship during public forums. Thus every person has the right to pray in school. When prayer was still allowed in school crime was at a low rate. Basically there was less crime everywhere. We consider the good ole' days when basic morals were taught at home. When the difference between right and wrong was enforced. When family and religion was considered the most valuable and precious things to have. Now look at the mess we have created. Children look up to their parents, and when parents don't enforce values at home, they seek to learn elsewhere. We now live in a world where parents are too busy with their jobs to be concerned with their main priority; children. Some children even skip trying to learn and cry out to gain attention. Every school deals with problem children breaking the code of conduct in some shape, fashion, or form. Take a good look at sixty years ago, prayer was allowed in schools and religion was strongly implied. We had less prisons full of human psychopaths and hardly any serial crimes like in today's society. Life was good and fair. Everyone treated each other with kindness and respect. Respect was a huge issue and so was the importance of believing in God. In modern days people turn to courts for every simple issue. There is no way they can act like decent, civil human beings and talk about a certain situation to solve a problem. Used to, if there was a problem it was settled by civil communication.

Life without prayer in school has led to total and complete chaos. People run around stabbing and stealing from each other like it's no big deal. There are not enough decent people in the world. Seriously think, how many people can you actually trust and conf...

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...rive them of their chance to learn and pray in public forums? No matter your race, or religion America is the land of opportunity and religion should be emphasized more.

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