A 2013 South Carolina bill aimed at “putting prayer back in school” has found renewed support in the new year.
The original bill proposed a mandatory daily moment of silence in public schools, during which teachers could opt to lead prayer and students could leave the room.
A new compromise would retain the moment of silence, but strike the clause allowing teachers to lead prayer. Students may still elect to leave the room. Why all this splitting of hairs for something that amounts to only one minute of the day?
Probably because, however small, it creates another chink in the wall of separationbetween church and state. But an even larger breach has—largely unnoticed and unquestioned—become commonplace in many schools across the country.
It’s a complex situation when teenagers are asked to publicly accept Christ in the very same room where they watch safety assemblies and choir concerts. In school, students study truths—the seemingly unchanging facts of science, math, grammar, and history. In church, though, people study Truths.
If capitalizing the first letter is perhaps insufficient to mark such a monumental change in meaning, then likewise a change in day of the week is too slight to mark such a monumental change in a building’s function. Instead of shifting seamlessly from school to church and back, the building broadens to encompass both, with jagged and blurry distinctions, only visible in certain lights.
i want to say it would probably be ok the school makes a buck and people get to worship they should put it into students or activities, but after realizing these were evangelicals that quickly turned to a negative. we know what they teach i the name of the Lord, but not the Lord other religions collectively teach, theirs embraces racism and bigotry, and selfishness.
they already have indoctrination summer camps they are hitting kids 365 days a year with their perverted anti religion.
school is a vibrant and complicated space that's constantly changing. One week, there's a student-body election and mock political flyers paper the walls. Later in the year, it's spirit week and everyone is wearing inaccurate '80s attire. Entering the school at either time, you'd find a unique space, a unique energy. And when dozens of newly baptized teenagers return to school on Monday ready to fulfill Elevation's mission of "reaching people far from God [to] be raised to life in Christ," the school is new again, entirely.
For one thing, peer pressure takes on a new form. According to alumna Shannon Remley, "It was trendy to attend Elevation and invite others to go. The church's focus on the number of souls it saved each week definitely bled into social groups at school."
Looking back, Remley is self-conscious about her actions as a member of the church. "I'm honestly embarrassed to think that I considered inviting my [non-Christian] classmates to Elevation in an attempt to convert them, when they had deeply embedded ties to their own religion," she says. "But, the fact that it was at Providence High, where we went five times a week, made it seem harmless."
evangelicals can not be in that school and not find a way to promote their kind of religion, like the scorpion it's their nature. those newly Baptized are sent to recruit more, we know there politics they support all the republicans an other haters do, they are creating a army of seduced children they take into their ranks a spread the hate further through the school system. if you live there or know someone who does time for the 411 call.
