But which prayers? Catholic or protestant? Southern Baptist prayers or Mormon? Who would regulate what type of prayers would be said? How would we accommodate Jewish kids that don’t believe in Christ as the son of God? What about Hindu kids or Buddhist kids? Maybe a board could be created that would make sure the right kind of prayer was said and to make sure those that didn’t participate would be “watched”.
Exactly...
The job isn’t for Caesar here!
It’s for the evangelist and the preacher and the believer.
We have a classic case of trying to band-aid the symptoms to cure the disease.
Never worked! Never will!
A country heavily populated with deep believers won’t even NEED legally ordained civic formalities — it might even disdain them because these folks will be praying and praising everywhere they go and God will be listening with a big ole heavenly grin!
That’s my theology and I’m stickin’ to it.
And Christians need to realize one more thing. There is no system of prayer, ordained or not, that will turn this place into a Shangri-La.
What a really robust prayer and praise life will do is turn the scene into a spectacular fight with the devil and God duking it out and God spectacularly winning these bouts over and over. A theology of supposedly nice Christianity is actually a kind of soft illusory hell that can’t stand up to the constant murmur of inner sin — because it colludes with that sin.