My thoughts:
When did we, christians, fail? How did such group even become acknowledgeable? Why do they care? Is saying a prayer really harming anyone else? What is the difference in imposing religion and imposing non-religion? Does "no prayer" really effect anyone other than the ones that believe turning to God for strength and guidance and to thank him for all that he has done?
My answers:
At some point in time christians decided to preserve the peace and became hushed because fighting a giant is kind of scary. Will you win or will you loose? Please revert back to the story of David and Galiath. We have a voice. We have strength from beyond our bodies. Its time to stand up and fight this giant.
We bow our heads for a "moment of silence"? Really, does saying its a "moment of silence" make you feel any better. You know we are praying!
Prayer has been around for thousands of years. Many organizations have turned to prayer before events for many years before one person decided that they didnt "like" prayer or they were "uncomfortable" during prayer. Is it any different that I as a christian feel uncomfortable about not having prayer before an event that has previously done so?
I see and hear stuff everyday that I do not like. I get over it and move on with my life. Quit worrying about what other people are doing with their lives. It has nothing to do with imposing beliefs on you or anyone else who do not believe in christianity.
Go Vols! Prayers WILL BE KEPT DURING PREGAME!
Our Founding Fathers:
George Washington (Inaugural Address)
"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."
George Washington (Farewell Address)
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness."
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
"The future of our country depends upon the Christian training of our youth."
"Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness."
"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almight God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors."
"The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitutde enough to acknowledge his obligations."
“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.”
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence."
Thomas Jefferson
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated by with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
Thomas Jefferson
"Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to noe of eternal and ineffable bliss."
"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution."
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government; far from it. We've staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity ...to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
James Madison
"The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state government, whose powers are more general. Charit is no part of the legilsative dut of the government."
"It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution."
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
"Whether our religion permits Christians to vote for infidel rulers is a question which merits more consideration than it seems yet to have generally received either from the clergy or the laity. It appears to me that what the prophet said to Jehoshaphat about his attachment to Ahab ["Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord?" 2nd Chronicles 19:2] affords a salutary lesson."
Joseph Story (Supreme Court Justice)
"I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our minicipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law....There never has been a period in which Common Law did not recognize Christianity as laying its foundations."
Benjamin Franklin
"Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
Benjamin Franklin
"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it."
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above."
George Mason
"The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth."
"For my own part, I sincerely esteem it [the Constitution] a system which, without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests."
Alexander Hamilton
"....the present constitution is the standard to which we are to cling....Let an association be formed to be denominated 'The Christian Constitutional Society,' its object to be first: The support of the Christian religion. second: The support of the United States."
Samuel Adams
"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness."
"The only foundation for...a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments."
Gouverneur Morris
"Religion is the only solid Base of morals and Morals are the only possible Support of free governments."
"Without morals a repubic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundationof morals, the best security for the duration of free governnments."
Jedidiah Morse
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys....Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."
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