>When I grew up during the 60's in school, believe it or not, we had in the secondary schools....
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>1) Morning prayer
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>egads!!!
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>2) Morning bible stories..!!!
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>NO!!!!!
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>3) And........ about 30 minutes of going to the auditorium to sing......... HYMNS to the Creators Glory!!
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>OHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....
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>Guess what we didn't have....................
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>Idiots coming into the schools with Automatic Weapons and slaying students.......... the worst we had was kids smoking in the johns............
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>AND........ no one ever complained about the Bible and God being in the schools. And we had all types of people there and different religions besides Christian.
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>But, hey.. let's go ahead and remove all vestiges of God from the Schools and Public life. The gun producers need new clients to sell to......
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>Tommy


Tom,

This is an example of totally bogus conclusions from no statistical research whatsoever. What you are describing as cause and effect has nothing to do with religion but it does with lack of parenting and the gun culture of the US.

I grew up in Argentina. We did not pray or sing hymns at school (public school). All we praised where patriotic stuff (akin to the Pledge of Allegiance). We did not have any incidents of guns or vandalism or other crimes whatsoever. That was living in a normal Latin American society where people do not own guns and were parenting is strong.

Like it was said before, morality and values do not depend on religion.