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The question should be, "Dear God, why did you allow almost all those parents to drug their children with drugs known to produce suicidal and homicidal ideation in young teenagers?"

I attended schools back when the Lord's Prayer was said by rote. It did nothing for the children, it was just something you did, that and the pledge of allegiance* to the flag.

Meaningless rituals.


*the pledge was written by defrocked baptist minister Francis Bellamy, a self described Christian Socialist in 1892. Bellamy said at the time, "The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the "republic for which it stands." And what does that vast thing, the Republic mean? It is the concise political word for the Nation-the One Nation which the Civil War was fought to prove. To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches."