Why Liberals Do Not Want Prayer in Schools

"I want the judiciary to ... punish leading rioters [against the 2009 election in Iran] firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson," Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University."
~ From Rueters

I suspect that many who follow my blog are not going to like this post, but then again, this area is for equal opportunity bashing of incorrect ideas, and is my property, so here goes.

In short, the kind of religious zealotry that is found in the above statement has its seeds in ANY introduction of religion into government and indeed points out the dangers of doing so. Our worst nightmare is for religion to take over the government for when that happens we will see the various sects fighting for control so as to send the other to hell - and using government as a tool of oppression to do it - because they do not believe as the 'other" believes.

The business of government is administration, and NOT the business of the promulgation of mores. Yes, without mores the government will fail, but if by the time a person gets to government, religion has not affected them to give them morality, then there is no hope for any of us.

Religion belongs to religion and, just as government needs to stay out of religion, so too religion(ism) needs to stay out of the government - meaning that religion, if it has to use the government to embed itself into people so as to embed itself into the government, then we are all doomed.

Not to put too fine a point on it, do you want Mullah Ahmad Khatami to be the Senate majority leader? Then drop all the histrionics about prayer in public school, for if you do not stop, then eventually you may find that you prayers are required to be said in Arabic - because the government has told you so.

This, my friends is the real reason why liberals do not want prayer in public (government)schools.