I pray to Bacchus, myself. Same difference. 
(Ooh! Ooh! Can we have a wine god flame war?)
But I don’t wanna have a flame…
Oh, sorry. Thought that said “whine.”
Never mind.
Ask the Gay Guy! (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, Asketh the damn Priest Guy!)
“Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”
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No, I don’t think prayer would have any effect. Because it’s just a prayer without any of the religious foundation to go behind it. To most kids it’ll just be part of the daily routine. I can recall the days when there was a moment of silence in school everyday and I had no clue what it was for. I’d bow my head like everyone else, fidget for thirty seconds, and then the day would resume like normal. Plus, it will lead to the inevitable confusion for the children of religious parents. “Mommy, why are the prayers we say in school different than those we say in church?”
Besides, I don’t think schools have a great an effect on kids as people think. My attitudes and beliefs reflect my parents and friends more than they do the school’s.
We want to look to the institution as the surrogate parent, but it’s just a tool for passing along useful knowledge. Educating ethics/morals/etc. starts at home.
Well there you go: lunasea says they have school prayer in England. Do we hear about kids storming their school with shotguns in England? No! QED.
Gadarene, if I agree to call him Bacchus half the time, will you join me in my quest for the holy grail of wine?
If not, screw you and your piddly version of the true lord of the drink!
(alternate flaming version) Oh, Bacchus is just soooo tacky! What is he wearing, velvet?
Bucky (similar to Bacchus)
cher3 please explane how school prayer acounts for this? The British have a diferent socitity then us.Are we to base this difence on school prayer?. The USSR didn’t have school prayer (the administion was athist) and there were no school shootings there. It isn’t because kids don’t pray it is because our socitity dosen’t teach good morals, the parents of this contry need to spend more time with there kids.
It was a joke, threll. They also have a little thing called gun control over there, I’ve heard.
The efficacy of school prayer in reducing violence is probably equivalent to the efficacy of the Pledge of Allegiance in increasing good citizenship.
My impression: zip.
Bucky, we are agreed. What we call our god is less important than the fact that we both revere fermented grapes.
(And Bacchus doesn’t wear velvet. He wears muslin, cause it breathes.)
Alternate flaming version: Your god’s so pathetic that even when he’s the main character of a Greek play, they name it after my god.
You’d make a lousy homosexual…
Esprix
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Esprix, I’m willing to learn. I mean, would I get special training or anything?
Gadarene, they named it after the drunker followers, but they still called him Dionysus in the play. But now that we’ve made nice, let’s proceed onward to WORLD DOMINATION!
Bucky
Bucky said:
Well, because the cheerleaders are still half-clad. You want my support, don’t go for half-measures – they have to take it all off!
So says the God of The First Church of David B.
Oh, they will…but slowly. Slowly…
not that damn slow!!
Bucky
I tried posting this and it didn’t get on in over an hour, so…
DavidB, they will be fully unclad, but slowly. Slowly.
Hey, not THAT freakin’ slowly!
Bucky