Excellent point. I wonder if anyone has the stats on how many school shootings there were before prayer was taken out of school and how many there have been since prayer was removed. I'd also like to have a practicing anti-Christian bigot explain to me why it's okay to pray in school AFTER a school shooting but not before.
http://www.columbine-angels.com/other_shootings.htm
I'd like someone to explain to me why Christians let the government raise their kids in the first place.
That would be a good question for the ACLU (Anti.. Christian.. Liberal.. Union..)
I wonder if anyone has the stats on how many school shootings there were before prayer was taken out of school and how many there have been since prayer was removed.Spoken prayer as part of the curriculum or events with a primarily secular purpose (the only things banned by the SC, by the way) was removed in 1962. Between then and the mid 90s there was one prominently reported school shooting, the "I Don't Like Mondays" incident. That's a 30 year gap, a bit much to establish causality.
Getting rid of curricular prayer isn't what caused the problems we are having. I graduated high school in 1980 and while there was no prayer, students were definitely accountable for their actions. Indeed, my age group and the one immediately following were the "Reagan Kids" that supported Ronaldus Maximus 2-1 in 1984, and kicked the modell out of the Iraqis afterwards.
It's the removal of that accountability by liberal school districts at the behest of the NEA and the Clintonian DOE that has caused the problems we see today. Both during school and after graduation. Not even 10% of recent HS graduates are worth anything in a manufacturing plant.
-Eric
"I wonder if anyone has the stats on how many school shootings there were before prayer was taken out of school and how many there have been since prayer was removed."
This is often brought up by the religious fundamentalists. It would be just as appropriate or even more so to ask about the before and after stats in regard to gun control laws. Back in the days when a person could order a revolver from the mail order catalogue kids killing kids was indeed rare, and I doubt school prayer had much to do with it.
Seldom are societal trends directly linked to just one factor.