You like religion here...so....

But what kind of guns?
Automatic weapons are easily acessable now.
ANd maybe you were taught differently, or maybe their following the columbine example? I dunno. But I do its related to guns not god.

How do you know that? NOT just automatic weapons KILL, kids have had access to gunss for years and years and years.........why are they now killing w/them? they didnt' back then.

Did i say it was in the Constitution? NOPE i said our Country was founded on God, and it was.

Of course many probably a vast majority of Americans/colonists practiced christianity, but so also did many believe in deistic philosophy. Most of the influential "Founding Fathers" held to deism and freemasonry beliefs rather than to Christianity.

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
Fire hun, I know they dont consider the possibility. What I am curious to is the WHAT IF part.

And my point about the pledge was that if you arent going to do it for the "god" reason and yet you are willing to carry currency that says basically the same thing, then in my book thats a double standard.

Kinda hard to live in a country without using the currency. the thing here is choice IMO

About the pledge they have a choice, if the god part bothers them they can refuse not to say it. about the currency, eventho it might bother them, they don't have a choice. They would have choice if there were bills with God on them and without God on them.

and I don't find the pledge ridiculous because of the word God is in it, I just find it a silly custom as a whole, then again I aint much of a patriot except when it comes to Sport (mostly Soccer)

They prayed daily, they were christians.

They prayed daily, they were christians

Search it out, hun.

I dont have to search out the fact that they werent all chrisitans, not by a long shot. A lot of them couldnt give a rats ass about chrisitanity

yeah figured you would come up w/something like that. That is what America was founded on hun.

please leave the hun stuff cause it sounds a bit too phoney, and second many were indeed chrisitans but not all of them and some of them of the latter category actually were the leaders

I never said ALL Of them were.

didnt say otherwise either

America was founded on religious freedom, not Christianity.

I didn't say the pledge in school because I thought it was dumb to have to say it every day, not because I don't believe in God.

And like Tpt said, I go to school because I want to learn, not to have beliefs shoved down my throat. If I wanted to learn about religion, I'd go to church.

Originally posted by Papaumau
Do any of you believe that the state should allow the religious powers to dictate that single-denomination faith-schools should be provided so that each individual religion get's taught alongside the other three Rs.

OR... like in America... should the state and religion stay completely separate...especially in our primary school system ?

Well being educated in Catholic schools my whole life, I find that religion is itslef important in a child's life, the choice to choose is important too, I mean, a child should have a choice to attend a school with religion even if the parents don't agree with it, but at a young age that's a difficult thing to decide 😬

So I think that religion in school's is important like anything else, but again biased opinion here seeing as that was how I was brought up, although even if the choice is mine, I would still have gone to Catholic school.

I wouldn't have. But thats my preference.

Like I said before...had I actually lived IN Chicago, I would have been in a Catholic school...and probably I'd have prefered it, simply because the Chicago public school system is really bad. But I'd've gone to the Catholic school because I wanted to learn academics, not religion.

I wish i had gone to a christian school.

I've been in a Lutheran school since the 3rd grade, and I think just the opposite. If the child has science, he doesn't need, nor would he accept, religion.

Seperation of church and state, keep the religion out of public schools.

A kid doesn't have to be taught religion at school, but I thk they shld have the right to pray if they want to, no matter what.

Not if it means taking time out of the school day, that could be used for teaching, no, I don't think so.