There are three common complaints that people whine out occasionally when any of them might be useful to their agenda.

The first two are easily dispelled if you speak to anyone actually involved with the classroom, and are usually promoted by people who have not seen the inside of a classroom since they graduated or dropped out.

The pledge of Allegiance is recited every day in school, usually in Homeroom and just before the morning announcements.

 Sadly it is a by rote exercise that most kids mumble their way through with it having any more meaning than the “God Bless You” after a sneeze or a “Thank you for your service” at a service member sighting.

Prayer is not forbidden in schools.

What is not allowed is for the administration to lead the prayer because that leaves the choice of prayer up to that administrator, and that administrator would most likely choose one with which he or she is most familiar, giving favorite status to one religion or sect within a greater one over others with which they are unfamiliar or just simply do not agree.

 Which religion’s prayers are allowed and which are left out?

In the 1930s Brookline High School near Boston had a major fire so students had classes in the nearby Jewish Community Center. In those days the Lord’s Prayer was the prayer recited at the beginning of the day, and my mother, who was a student at the time, while she had never considered the prayer out of place as she was Catholic and the prayer was part of her background, realized that while there were Jewish kids in her classes who were present during the daily recitation at the high school building and had to follow school practice, here was the Jewish Community helping out the public school system and that same prayer was being recited every day in their building. Beyond being unappreciatively ironic, it struck her that in all fairness a Jewish prayer should be recited occasionally. To her it was like being invited to a Catholic home for a Friday night pot luck in those days, and bringing a meat dish.

Students today are allowed to quietly pray on their own or in groups outside of instructional time provided it does not interfere with the class lesson, override it, or bring attention away from the lesson but to those praying.

Bibles can be read by students with the same constraints as prayers, meaning it cannot be read instead of an assigned reading or out loud when kids are captive in class or the cafeteria and only if  it is in a class that deals with various types of literature and the Bible is part of the syllabus..

As with prayer, since there are three version of the Bible, Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic, which Bible does the school use? Also, when it comes to prayer, which version of the Lord’s prayer, the Catholic one or the Protestant one?

There are plenty of times during a school day that students can pray or read their bibles- before and after classes begin, walking in the halls, between classes, at lunch, or in the school yard. While they have that freedom, others have the freedom not to be preached at or have their use of free time usurped for another student’s purpose without any say in the matter.

The third annoying claim goes beyond the classroom to promote the fallacy that the world became a crueler place once God was removed from society, and people have become degenerates.

This conveniently ignores actual history at the time when God and religion held a more prominent place in society.

A list of wars based on religion and the number of deaths cause by them would include
Taiping Rebellion- 20,000,000 Deaths, Thirty Years War- 7,500,000 Deaths, Madhi Revolt- 5,500,000, Crusades (in the East)- 3,000,000 Deaths, French Wars of Religion- 3,000,000 Deaths, War in the Sudan- 2,600,000, Albigensian Crusade- 1,000,000 Deaths, Panthay Rebellion- 1,000,000 Deaths, Hui Rebellion- 640,000 Deaths, Partition of India- 500,000, and Cromwell’s Invasion of Ireland- 400,000 Deaths (Rank 81st) .

And this is a short list.

That’s a lot of violence not only when God and religion were major things, but because of them.

Beyond wars these are example of other practices and events done by religion in the name og god, or gods, as the case may be.

 To appease the bloodthirsty goddess Kali, members of lndia’s  Thuggee sect strangled up to two million people as sacrifices. With British rule they switched to goats.

In the 1600s Puritans hanged and flogged Quakers because theyn had different beliefs, and then went on to kill 20 people as witches.

When the capitol of Burma was moved to Mandalay, 56 “spotless” men were buried beneath the new city walls to sanctify and protect the city, and then a further 500 men, women, boys, and girls were killed and buried under a section of the wall that was discovered to have been missed.

Those traveling from Arkansas to the West in the Fancher-Baker wagon train got as far as Mountain Meadows in Utah Territory on September 11, 1857 before they were attacked by a group of Mormons and Paiute Indians, agreed to give up their weapons in the pursuit of an end to the attack, and were then escorted to a place where 120 men, women and children were massacred. The Mormons took forever to admit this happened, and explained it was because of the defense of Mormons in Utah who feared invasion from the U,S, government of which these settlers were not a part.

The Aztecs killed up to 20,000 people to appease their gods. Preferred methods were drowning, beheading, burning, being dropped from heights, and the classic ripping out of the Heart on the high altar. Along with male victims there were terrorized children so that their tears might induce rain and virgins danced for 24 hours before killed and skinned. At King Ahuitzotl’s coronation, 80,000 prisoners were butchered to please the gods.

Again, a short list of examples.

When it comes to Europe, We have the Inquisition, another God inclusive practice that lasted a number of centuries, whose purpose was to suppress large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical. In 1209, 20,000 Cathars were massacred at Beziers in France, and in 1545 the Waldensians met a similar fate, and Jews had it pretty rough in a very religious Spain.

Killing people for God wasn’t always clean. As a matter of fact, it was usually cruel and gruesome. Preferred methods, all designed when God and religion were very present in society were:

• The Rack upon which victims were strapped across a board, bound by the ankles and wrists and then having their joints dislocated as two wheels on each end were turned in opposite direction of each other. Sometimes a grate was added under thr victim for added effect.  .
• Water torture where the victim’s nostrils were first pinched shut, and then about 8 liters of water was forced down the victim’s throat with a funnel. Boiling water or vinegar was used to inflict even greater suffering. The victim’s stomach would rupture, leading to painful and gruesome death.
• The Heretic’s Fork that consisted of two metal dwell with forks on neither end that was placed under the chin of the accused with one end resting just above the larynx and the other end above trachea. The victim had to hold his head erect at all times in order to avoid pain. Since the instrument didn’t target any vital organs, suffering could last for days without death.
• The Pear which was mostly used on female victim as it was inserted into the vagina or mouth, and then expanded by twisting the screw on the outer end, lacerating and ripping the inside.  Torture sessions usually ended in death.
• The Wheel, a giant spiked wheel operated by several men and was able to break literally every bone in victim’s body as it turned. It was a new and improved rack. 
• The Breast Ripper, a pronged device used to tear breasts off the chest. Obviously this was used non women
• The Judas Cradle a pointed pyramid with iron belts over which the victim whose ankles were weighted was suspend than quickly dropped. The results can go without description.
• Hanging cages usually hung outsides of town halls, palaces, cathedrals where God lives. In the first phase the victim was left naked and exposed to die slowly from hunger and thirst. The second phase left the cadavers in the cages until the bones literally fell apart.

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Another short list.

No video games but plenty of God.

So the claim that we have become more crass and cruel because God is no longer in schools, the market place, and/or government is belied by these and many more instances of cruelty that existed when He was.

Remember these examples and look up more, there are plenty, when someone tells you orally or on the internet that their God must be restored and your rights suppressed to that end.