“People have turned their backs on God,” Franklin Graham declared on Fox News last week. “Our educators have taken God out of schools. Our politicians have taken God out of politics. Our nation is not better [for it]. Our nation is worse.” And what does he mean when he says educators took God out of schools?
I fell sorry for people like Franklin Graham who believe in a God so puny that he can "be taken out of our schools." The God I worship can be anywhere he wants to be any time he wants to be there, and no one, not even the Supreme Court, can do anything about that. My wife taught in Virginia public schools for nearly 40 years before retiring, and I can guarantee you that whenever she was in her classroom God was present in her and loved her students through her love for them.
Coerced "faith" is not faith at all. It undermines the development of true faith.
I fell sorry for people like Franklin Graham who believe in a God so puny that he can "be taken out of our schools." The God I worship can be anywhere he wants to be any time he wants to be there, and no one, not even the Supreme Court, can do anything about that. My wife taught in Virginia public schools for nearly 40 years before retiring, and I can guarantee you that whenever she was in her classroom God was present in her and loved her students through her love for them.