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>Agreed in that the society is going downhill. It does not have to do with religion but with eroding moral values.
>Moral values are basic tenets of living in a civilized society. You can be moral with or without religion. You get moral values from your parents and grand parents, from your teachers and if you are religious from your priest, rabbi or imam.
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>This does not preclude parents from teaching hate (e.g. racism) or the imam from teaching to kill the infidel to get your reward in heaven.

Here is a very good definition of Morality:

Morality is a complex of principles based on cultural, religious, and philosophical concepts and beliefs, by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. These concepts and beliefs are often generalized and codified by a culture or group, and thus serve to regulate the behaviour of its members. Conformity to such codification may also be called morality, and the group may depend on widespread conformity to such codes for its continued existence.

So given the above, I think that you too quickly dismissed the notion that removing God from schools does not cause a problem. For a long time God was in the home and in the school. Why? Because that was what we believed as a society. So morality was being taught and the members of the society (Americans) were conforming to such codes that were being taught at home and in school. You take away the teaching of basic codes from school and you then jepordize the very existence of the group. Why? Because nothing filled the void left behind by the removal of God in school, other than teaching that makes a person drift from one concept to another. As a society we are becoming a rudderless ship.