Allowing religious ceremony into the curriculum will only add divisiveness to the educational system contaminating the students. If we are going to allow for religion in school during a time of education, then the church needs to allow for education during a time of worship. Fair is fair. This is why it is best to keep each medium within the arena for which it was designed. Otherwise, religion will allow for no time to study and learn, and education will allow for no time to pay homage and worship.

But of this, you can be sure: throughout history the church has done everything in its power to quash education. Did you know that when Galileo used science to discover that the Earth was not the center of the universe as written in the book of Genesis and taught by the church, that they sought him out for execution? They did. Not because he figured it out through math and science upsetting their little apple cart, but because, so long as he lived - his way of thinking represented a threat!

In fact, it all started in the Garden of Eden when God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Not the tree of inspiration, mind you, or the tree of joy, nor the tree of fulfillment, but the tree of knowledge. Yes. Religion has always had a problem with knowledge. Did you know that the Amish not only teach their children mostly religion in school, but that they refuse to educate them beyond the eighth grade? They keep them ignorant because for those who do manage to pursue an education, they abandon their backward old world ways. Imagine that.

In closing, I would suggest that you be careful for what you ask when it comes to religion in school. Not because you might get it, but because for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction harboring unintended consequences. But you would never know the fundamentals of this law, so long as religion were allowed to rule the day.

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