Religion In School

Religion in School No aspect of the church-state controversy arouses more emotion and discussion than the subject of prayer in the public schools. After all, public schools are supported with taxpayer money. What believer would want their taxes to support an institution that prohibits his children from praying? What nonbeliever would want their taxes to support an institution that requires her children to participate in prayer? Yet some believers think they know better than the …

…church and state. In arguments against school prayer, people don’t think it should be allowed due to the censorship that it would bring. That the prayers the government would be leading would be closed minded and even offending to some people. In arguments for school prayer we seem to come up with few, weak, standing points. The strongest one seems to be that we should have school prayer simply because our ancestors had it.