We may not bow to some of the gods that the Apostle Paul talked about in the New Testament, but everyone worships something or someone. Greed and power seems to have the largest following. Novelist David Foster Wallace goes on to say that society is no less religious. “Everybody worships”.

He warns that, “If you worship money and things…then you will never have enough…worship your body and beauty…and you will feel ugly…worship your intellect …[and} you will end up feeling stupid. Our secular age has its own gods, and they are not benign.” This brings us to the question, whether prayer should be allowed in schools.

Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court removed government-endorsed prayer from public schools, ruling the practice unconstitutional. The decision remains at the center of debate over the separation of church and state, and altered the way classrooms approached faith and religion.

In the 1963 Murray v. Curlett case, the Supreme Court expanded on their 1962 decision to ban mandatory Bible readings in schools, thus finishing the government’s drive to remove the Christian faith from the nation’s education system. What if you were not a Christian. What about unbelievers?

No doubt it was a hot topic during the time and still is. Those who say that prayer should be allowed are thinking that they can some how taylor it to there liking. It is difficult for members of one faith to decide how it should be taught.  

The bible even speaks about this over 2,000 years ago. Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So, you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

In Matthew 6:5-7, Jesus taught, “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others…but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.

Then your father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”