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Why Not Prayer in School? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: William J. Murray |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,509 Words, 9,433 Characters |
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In the three decades since this landmark case, the nation has lost its moral center. Violent crime has increased from 16.1 to 75.8 incidents per 10,000 population. Juvenile violent crime arrest rates have increased from 13.7 to 40 per 10,000 population. Teen pregnancy has almost tripled from 15.3 to 43.5 per 1,000 teenage girls. Almost half of these pregnancies end in abortion. For a startling 28 percent of all live births in America today, the mothers are unwed. The teenage suicide rate has increased 400 percent since 1963.
I could go on, but the questions that beg for an answer are: Will the return of school prayer reverse the trends outlined above? If prayer were to be reinstated in the public school systems of America, would the teen pregnancy rate decline? Would the suicide rate be...
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...dgets that will eventually bankrupt us financially and spiritually.
Additional Reading:
David Barton, To Pray or Not to Pray, Wallbuilders Press, Aledo, Texas, 1994.
M.E. Bradford, Original Intentions, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1993.
William J. Murray, Let Us Pray, William Morrow Company, New York, 1995.------, My Life without God, Harvest House, Eugene, Oregon, 1992.
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