Many other Christians feel strongly about the subject. Many Christians have written essays, prayers or poems about school prayer. ... They are not allowed to pray exclusively Christian prayers as an organized part of the school schedule. ... Many liberal Christians interpret Matthew 6:6 literally. ... After all, if public prayer is not permitted, then just about every Christian service is wrong. ...

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It is occasionally performed within Aboriginal, Christian and Muslim families who have emigrated to the US or Canada from some Muslim countries where it is practiced as a social tradition. ... The Christian Scientist faith teaches how to rely on prayer alone for physical cure. ... But for parents who believe in the Christian Scientist faith would rather pray and keep their child away from the medical attention they seriously need. ... In some third world countries like Afghanistan and Africa, school officials use corporal punishment to gain classroom discipline and to punish children for poo...

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Religious Marquees in Public Schools Religious marquees belong in churches, not in public schools. ... If one Atheist student does not agree with what another Christian student believes, they may get into an argument. ... If parents want their student to have religious activities and prayer in their school, then they should think about private schools. ... If the principal lets one belief enter a public school, then legally that person must let all other beliefs enter their school. ... Schools can bypass these controversial topics by not letting any religious beliefs enter public school...

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Christians believe that prayer does wonders for someone's life along with interacting people's lives. Perhaps no aspect of the church-state arouses more emotion than the subject of prayer in public schools. After all, public schools are paid by the tax payer and what religious supporter would want their money to support a school that prohibits their children from praying? ... Constitution on the subject of voluntary school prayer. ... Prayer should not be allowed in public schools. ...

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Many people view this movement as a way for Christians to sneak their religion into public schools through a back door. Even if the Christian religion is trying to force their religion into the schools, it is a worthy try because the Ten Commandments are not only laws of the Bible but they are also laws of morality and laws of the United States. ... In the year of 2000, 49.5% of the population proclaimed to be of the Protestant Christian religion, which means that 24.5% of the supporters taken in the poll were not Christians ("Largest-). ... As a student in high school I will be the first ...

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He became a member of the Church of Christ in Christian Union and was soon teaching Sunday school classes and leading the choir. ... When his case came up for review it was denied at both the local and the state level because the Church of Christ in Christian Union was not recognized as a legitimate Christian sect. ... Alvin's vision was for a school open to any and all underprivileged Tennessee children who wished to pursue an education and proposed that the school provide vocational training as well as the fundamental basics of education. ... Ironically, the Bible school that was built ...

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Creation cannot be taught in the schools, voluntary praying and scripture reading in the schools have been removed, and there is also a fight underway to remove "under God" from our Pledge of Allegiance. ... This not only applies to Christians. ... It was not placed there to persuade everyone who passed it to become Christian. ... The results showed that 82% were Christians and only 2% were atheists. We cannot allow the agnostic minority to over rule the Christian majority. ...

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Creation cannot be taught in the schools, voluntary praying and scripture reading in the schools have been removed, and there is also a fight underway to remove "under God" from our Pledge of Allegiance. ... This not only applies to Christians. ... It was not placed there to persuade everyone who passed it to become Christian. ... The results showed that 82% were Christians and only 2% were atheists. We cannot allow the agnostic minority to over rule the Christian majority. ...

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Until 1962, state-mandated prayers in school were considered legal and just. ... However, Americans against prayer in schools have a completely different opinion of the situation. ... They believe this could cause potential harassment and school violence to increase. ... The first four commandments refer theologically to the Christian and Jewish religions. Thus, non-Judeo-Christians may possibly be offended by the presence of the Commandments. ...

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What really caused a spike in this campaign was the routine prayer and religious statues in public school classrooms. After multiple law suits against the school board, the case finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court and prayer was banned from public schools "much to Christians' displeasure. Around this time the evangelicals Jerry Falwell and Ed Dobson preached to convince Christians they had a higher calling than to protest in the Civil Rights Movement. ... In 2006 Obama addresses, "Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Musli...

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If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like something like the following: There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be nonwhite 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 89 would be heterosexual 11 would be homosexual 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth All 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substa...

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Sexual Education is required in most schools in the United States. ... The Christian Crusade stated that any sexual education taught in schools was "smut" and "raw sex.... Most public schools across the United States have incorporated sexual education in their schools at this point in time. ... This does not mean that abstinence is the only method being taught in schools. ... The use of birth control is also taught in most public schools. 65 percent of high schools include condoms in their sexual education courses. ...

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These families' circle of acquaintances consists mainly of persons from the church and it is not unheard of that the families send their children to Sunday school before the actual worship session, then send them to youth group on Wednesdays and the adults themselves go to bible studies on Monday evenings, often hosted by one of the church members. ... It is folly to classify America as a Christian nation just because some religious authorities may call contemporary America one. Though created by men living in a society that was driven mostly by Christian morals, the American Constitut...

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How can students be motivated to stay in school? ... The parent may mention how being a high-school graduate helped them or how they were hurt by being a high-school drop-out. ... The lure of drugs and money could also be overcome by teaching children, at a young age, good Christian morals. ... In October 1999, some 3.8 million young adults were not enrolled in a high school program and had not completed high school. ... In the 1997-98 school year 479,000 students dropped out of high school (U.S. ...

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It violates the Christian doctrine of "just war." President Bush claims he is Christian, and who wouldn't believe him. He talks about God every chance he gets, he goes to church, and he leads us to believe he is a good, wholesome, Christian man. ... Instead of spending $200 billion on an unnecessary war, we should be investing in our nations overcrowded schools and failing health care system. ...

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When I tell people I like school, it is an opinion that I give. ... It allows us to choose what religion to be, whether it is Catholic, Christian, Jewish, etc. ... To sum up, freedom of religion is extremely meaningful to me because without it, I probably couldn't be a Christian, which I want to be. ...

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Although I was not surprised to hear that those who are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian are in a privileged status in the society, it still bothered me to hear about it. ... I had heard about separate schools, buses and so on in a broad sense, but never actually listened to someone give specific examples of it. ... For instance, there were separate elementary schools for people of color. ...

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Before enrolling in school, he could already read and write. ... At nine years old, Jefferson entered boarding school and was taught by a man named Rev. ... When Thomas was fourteen his father died and Thomas was sent to a classical school where he was taught by Rev. ... He studied at the classical school until he was ready for college. ... I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others." ...

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The members of the churches were not fully Christian in the eyes of the Church rather descendants of former members of that sect. But after time this failed and the distinction between "official" Christian members of the church and the halfway covenant goers. The Church was opened to all Christians in an effort to revive the religion yet all these measures were to no avail. ... These colleges were all founded by colonists as schools of bible. ... During the enlightenment these schools added science, mathematics, literature, and history to their curriculum. ...

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One of the most common places to find a drinking fountain is in a school, whether it be a grammar school or a high school. ... Before the movement there were completely separate schools for blacks and whites. The black schools were usually just old run down homes in the middle of nowhere. After integration the blacks were allowed admission into the previously all white schools. ... The Southern Christian Leadership Conference would have never been founded, and school integration may have never succeeded to the degree that it did. ...

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Should charter schools be allowed to skim the best students off the public schools? ... In the 1970s" school choice took the form of magnet schools, usually centralized public schools that offered special enrichment programs to entice children from their local schools. ... Another form of school choice is the use of school vouchers. ... The most recent school choice development has been the charter school movement. ... Support for school choice comes from diverse sampling of the "consumers of education": liberals who oppose compulsory schools that have become too impersonal and bureaucratized,...

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Of the 643 participants, forty-eight were members of the janitorial and grounds-keeping staff at three educational institutions; 123 were recruited through the support of five Christian churches; thirty-two were employees of an electronics firm; 141 were relatives or friends of students enrolled in a Psychological Testing course; 129 were visitors to a large shopping mall; sixty-five were mental health professionals; eighty-two were residents of a retirement community; and twenty-three were parents of grade-school children. ...

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As a child he attended Camden elementary school. ... Even though Sessions gets the credit for the work he has done in the senate he openly admits that he could not have made it without support from his wife Mary Blackshear Sessions, their three children Mary Abigail, Ruth Walk, and Sam, and his Christian faith. ...

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Letting God Back In As long as there were test that I forgot to study for I was praying in high school. ... Law dates all the way back to the Bible and the Bible is the basis of Christian religion. ... Today, the law is that religion may not even present is schools. ... A Congress that allows God to be banned from our schools while our schools can teach about cults, Hitler and even devil worship is wrong, out of touch, and needs some common sense. ... Most students that attend school in a small community may not know that this type of activity is illegal today, according to most school bo...

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I graduated High School in the Philippines and continued my college education here with my bachelor's degree. ... I came from a Christian family. Growing up as a Christian took a lot of faith to really know what it is like to be one. ...

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