The struggle to prayer at school is now raging in Texas, where the public -general Ken Paxton promises to defend every school district that introduces controversial practice under a recent state law that extends religious expression in education.
For my whole life, and I am old, the ban on prayer sponsored by the public school seemed to be a fixed constitutional science, due to a decision by the Supreme Court of 1962, except what had previously been a widespread and normal practice.
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In the past I agreed with this form of separation of church and state. For me it was almost a matter of better safe than sorry about the rights of minority religions, and more importantly, I believed that Christian moral values ​​were so deeply rooted in our culture that 30 seconds a day could be left of praying.
Lord, I was wrong.
In fact, the ban on school prayer was only one piece of a broader effort to remove God from the public square. The clear and clear wrong message was that God has nothing to do with public matters or education.
This is exactly how you end with Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA., On Wednesday in the halls of the congress, it says that it is “extremely disturbing” to believe that our rights are coming from our creator, although his fellow VIRGINIAN, Thomas Jefferson, made this concept of the Cornerstone of the entire American experiment.
Ken Paxton, attorney general of Texas, during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty images)
Perhaps if Kaine took 30 seconds every morning to pray, or even just paid attention to the daily prayer in congress, he would remember that it is in God that we trust.
In terms of education itself, through the history of the West, or we dare to call Christianity, prayer played a key role. At least up to 63 years ago, that is.
Here we can rely on Thomas Aquinas, not as a Catholic saint, but as one of the most important academics and teachers of the Middle Ages from his perch at the University of Paris in the mid -13th century.
In his prayer for the student, Aquinas asks that the Holy Spirit “turns your sparkle over my dense intellect, the darkness that covers me, that of sin and of ignorance. Give me a penetrating mind to understand, a retentive memory, method and convenience in learning …”
What Aquinas understood so long ago was that the goal of prayer is to humble, with humility, our own limitations, and to ask that maker who our rights come to guide us.
Fast-forward until 2025 and our public schools are atheistic due to design, but atheism is not a neutral religious philosophy, nor a purely absence of religion. It implies a purely physical concept of the world, a statement that is not demonstrable than religion itself.
Nowadays we go to education through artificial intelligence. There is no reason for children to read books, because, we are told, AI will let their imagination come to life.
Boy who clamps hands and prayers says in the first class of the St. Gertrude School in Cincinnati, Ohio. ((Photo by Steve Liss/Getty images))
Although Aquinas stated that we have to struggle to overcome our intellectual shortcomings and ignorance, AI is simply immediately satisfaction on a plate.
Part of the reason that the founders have not specified that America is a Christian nation is that it seemed obvious. In their time the English -speaking people were a thousand years Christian.
The framers of the Constitution wanted to avoid the intra-Christian battles that had plagued the motherland, not to break Christianity from public life, a concept that seemed absurd for them.
Every morning at school saying the prayer of the Lord, seeking forgiveness of God, promising forgiveness for others, asking to be protected against temptations such as laziness and delivered by evil, such as drug use or hatred, a student not only prepares to learn, but to be an American citizen.
In the absence of God and prayer, Kaine is absolutely correct: our rights are nothing more than a piece of paper, subject to the waving grilling of powerful mortals. That can be fine in England, where they arrest people about mean tweets, but never in America.
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It is by no means an imposition of an American Jewish, Muslim or atheistic student to be exposed to the prayer of the Lord, they live in a nation based on a Christian understanding of morality.
This Christian morality is ingrained in the DNA of America. Why can’t you have seven women? Because Christianity prohibits it. How did the nuclear family become the model of the Western Democratic government? It was promoted by the church.
In my life the efforts to banish religion from official and public procedures have gone too far and we can feel the loss. This is very part of the reason why we see a religious revival happening, especially with regard to young Americans who become Catholics.
It is not too late to resolve this defect. Sixty -five years is a blip in the history of the West. There have already been wrong twists and turns, and now, with Texas in front, we can navigate to a return to what Western education has always been and what it must always be, an act of service, not only for ourselves, not only for our society, but also for God Himself.
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