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From: jrl@harpo.UUCP (jrl)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: school prayer
Message-ID: <2252@harpo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 13:19:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 13:19:23 1984
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      With all this talk of prayer in the schools, let us not forget
 what Sigmund Freud said in one of his books (I think it was Totem & Taboo)
 He referred to religion as  "THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES" . 

      While prayer has no place in school (public). There should be allowed
 a time for silent meditation where students can pray to Christ, Buddah,
 Jehova, or the dollar. Rather than try to force children to pray there
 should be more of an effort to teach them to think for themselves. But I
 keep forgetting that the function of a school is not to educate, but to
 mold children into docile, productive taxpayers to be led down the
 consumer path by the Judas goat of television. 

     Years ago I knew a family that was scorned by the neighbors because
 their child had no religion. What the parents did was to expose the child
 to many forms of religious worship and teachings and left it up to the
 child to choose his own faith.