Let Us Pray: A Plea for Prayer in Our Schools

By William J. Murray

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688145639
• ISBN13: 9780688145637
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Facts and Fiction... people who read this, get the FACTS!

Okay first the facts... there IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!!!! Let me say that in a different way for anyone who can't understand what I just said.... THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT CONTAIN THE WORDS "SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE...." Those words are from a LETTER (Correspondence) That THOMAS JEFFERSON wrote when asked to give a commencement address for the graduation ceremony of DANBURY COLLEGE (Now Danbury University). HE was, at the time, a FORMER president, and didn't feel comfortable with the idea of giving a commencement address. He never was able to separate himself from the public persona of president and felt like his presence at the graduation would be perceived as the US GOVERNMENT Condoning one religion over another.... He did not want to be perceived as a Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc, in the eyes of the people. He was, quite factually, a man of deep religious faith and believed STRONGLY in the Christian God. He did not, however, believe that one religion was right whereas all the others were wrong. He believed (as do many christians today) that religion was manmade and to promote one over the other was blasphemy to God. So long as man worshipped the Christian God, Thomas Jefferson did not feel led to tell America HOW to worship. Second thing to clear up. The CONSTITUTION DOES contain a protection of Freedom OF religion. This is NOT to be read as Freedom FROM Religion, so all the atheists of the world are sorely mistaken when they try to remove God from everything. We are a CHRISTIAN Nation, founded on Judeo-Christian principles. 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were of some recognized CHRISTIAN religion. You have the right, in America, to be Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, etc etc etc... you even have the right to be ATHEIST. But by removing God you are promoting ATHEISM. This is promoting one religion (or lack thereof) over another, (Over ALL others really.) This is against the Constitution. Murray makes the blunt statement that his atheist views were wrong. He says that he was an impressionable child and was caught up in something he didn't fully understand by a controlling witch of a mother who was a mother only in the term that she carried him within her womb, gave birth to him, etc. Biologically, she was his mother. Emotionally, she was a trainwreck. And when the train finally wrecked, Madalyn Murray O'Hair took her other son and granddaughter with her to her Godless grave. William Murray decided long before that moment that he didn't want that to be his final moment. This book gives each of its readers that same choice. And boldly presents prayer/religion with the option to take it or leave it. Regardless, you'll be well aware of the consequences of your choice.

Interesting perspective from a former atheist

When I read the other reviews, I wondered if they had read the same book that I had! I wonder what they believe the academic & moral decline of our schools is attributed to? Isn't it amazing that school shootings, gang violence, teen pregnancy, and the like just so happened to grow to epidemic proportions after the 1960's? How do you teach a child the difference between what's right & wrong when you're not allowed to discuss Absolute Truth? In public schools these days, political correctness has run amok. The viewpoint of an Islamic jihadist is given the same value as a Christian missionary. Granted, the abolishment of prayer in schools is only one of many ways we are failing our children, but this is not the only topic discussed in this book. Mr. Murray not only makes an excellent case about the fallacy of secularism being neutral, but he also details the history of evolution & "scientism" that is often ignored in history classes.