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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (83089)	9/9/2008 1:56:29 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541791

Actually, not so much prayer as in a formal, bowed head prayer in the schools. I don't know that public prayer accomplishes much.....altho it might be nice if all kids grew up knowing there was such a thing. Prayer, though, is problemmatic. I would be more agreeable to starting each day with the reading of religious platitudes and other famous sayings that focus on character building. Did you really mean to say that? Isn't this the exact thing our forefathers fought so hard to get away from by moving to America and establishing our freedoms? Our forefathers fought to give us freedom OF religion not freedom FROM religion per se. I fully appreciate the wisdom of separating church from state. OTOH, I share some of what evangelicals feel because denying the 'planting of little seeds' in children can also lead to a barren earth.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (83089)	9/9/2008 5:24:25 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 541791

I ran an interfaith camp once. We had the Jewish children taken to Friday night services at our neighbor camp.The Sunday service was all about love,charity,devotion,patriotism,nature, and many more topics. We never did a service that would offend any one of any religion. It worked.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (83089)	9/10/2008 2:30:03 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 541791

>>Would you say it would be okay then to say a prayer every day from a different religion? One day a Christian prayer and the next a prayer from the Koran? One day a prayer from the Pacific Indians from the Northwest and the next a saying from an atheist?<< Steve - The day a verse from the Koran was read over a public school intercom system anywhere in this country would be the first day of a huge crapstorm fueled by incensed parents. That's one thing you can depend on. - Allen