Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
It is impossible to remove prayer from the school system... Though public didplays can be banned...
I don't know how you figure science has k**led more people than religion... Wars are not fought over science...
Seriously?!?
Scientists have created LITERALLY ALL EXPLOSIVES from gun powder to TNT to Nuclear bombs.
Additionally.., biological and chemical weapons are the product of scientific invention.
Certainly, Religion [like Nationalism and the thirst for land and power] has been an element in justifying war but.., a Bible or the Koran are BOOKS containing IDEAS.
In the end.., it's the "sticks and stones".., not the "words" that accomplish the task of "hurting".
Possibly, like too many, you are unaware of how few wars have been caused as a result of religion. In the recently published book, “Encyclopedia of Wars,” authors Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod document the history of recorded warfare, and from their list of 1763 wars only 123 have been classified to involve a religious cause, accounting for less than 7 percent of all wars and less than 2 percent of all people k**led in warfare. While, for example, it is estimated that approximately one to three million people were tragically k**led in the Crusades, and perhaps 3,000 in the Inquisition, nearly 35 million soldiers and civilians died in the senseless, and secular, slaughter of World War 1 alone.
I've found that those who jump to blaming religion for warfare or dismissing how scientific advances have contributed FAR MORE to the human carnage are WHOLLY OBTUSE.
Hell..., if c*****e c****e produces 10% the death which some predict.., it will be the product of SCIENTIFIC development [see internal combustion engine, et al].
I suggest you rethink your anti-faith perspective. Like science, faith produces benefits as well as liabilities.
FINALLY.., your assertion that banning "public prayer" is not banning prayer is RIDICULOUS at base.