New School Prayer

Personal prayer - and even vocal corporate prayer initiated and organized by students during non-directed time - has never been "against the rule."

Even if it was, it would be a futile rule since no one can stop silent prayer.

Obviously, its not. For instance, it's all over our money.

The Bible has not been outlawed.

There might have been some good points to make in this rhyme, but it is based on falsehoods.

 

Now the prom queens are guys in some places.

 

The author (usually claimed to be a "student", but almost certainly not) is "venting" about a religious situation that is not real. Then the writer takes that false narrative and weaves other things around it as cause and effect. It is simply propaganda.

 

It is sardonic humor. More truth than poetry.

 

It's rhyme, not poetry, and there's not much truth in it.

The following are just a few examples of baldly false statements:

"Where praying is against the rule"

"And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now"

"The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice"

"In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the State."

"They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible." (The Bible is not outlawed)

"To quote the Good Book makes me liable."

 

You are too young probably to remember the old America that is gone forever because of liberals.

 

That's a weird comment. If something is true, it is true - regardless of what anyone thinks.

If something is false, it is false - regardless of what anyone thinks.

I am 52, but I had a teacher (Roman Catholic, FWIW) who ignored the teacher-initiated prayer decisions and my class recited the Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer every morning and memorized Luke 2 during Xmas season.

As a class, we plowed through the Lord's Prayer as a vain repetition and Luke 2 as an assignment, and they meant very little. However, a hypocritical Roman Catholicism ruled over the classroom - not the kind of environment that I would want anyone else to experience.

My father went through public schools in the 1930s and early 1940s (before the war) and never had the teacher lead in prayer or scripture reading. My mother went through public high school in the very late 1940s and early 1950s and also did not experience a teacher leading in prayer or scripture reading. So this idea that students started every morning in prayer and scripture was certainly not a uniform experience.

Baptists have historically opposed state-sponsored religion and religious practices, so your claim of "liberals" causing the "old America" to go away is certainly curious. As someone who grew up in a highly segregated part of Texas (one of the major school districts in my region finally desegregated their schools in 1982), I am happy to be done with some of the "old America."

 

Obviously.

It is against the law to murder school children as well, but that unfortunately does not stop some people.

The rhyme you presented pretends like religious repression is legal.

As I pointed out previously, the following assertions claim that religious repression is THE LAW:

"Where praying is against the rule"

"And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now"

"The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice"

"In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the State."

"They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible." (The Bible is not outlawed)

"To quote the Good Book makes me liable."​

Why do you keep trying to evade this reality?