LETTERS: KEEP RELIGION OUT OF SCHOOLS

To the editor:

Concerning Bruce Aden's letter to the editor on school bias reflecting the community: I uphold the case that was involved where the judge told the schools they can't have any officially sanctioned religious activity in the schools.

Concerning the coaches who allowed prayer on the football field before a game, it is clearly stated in Matthew 6:1-7, "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore, when thou prayest, do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may have the glory of men. But when thou prayest, go into thy closet and pray in secret, and thy Father which seeth thee in secret shall reward thee openly."

According to our history books, Abraham Lincoln never belonged to any organized religion strictly because he never saw a black man or a Jewish man in church in that day and time. In Lincoln's time, these same organized religions were the very same people who enslaved the black man and taught hatred against the Jews. They were not even allowed into the churches long before I was born in 1945.

If you assembled all religions today in one room for a panel discussion, not one of them could agree. Our drug educators do agree. They attend training and deal with the facts in educating our children today.

Mr. Aden admitted that the home has failed, churches and Sunday schools have failed, or we wouldn't have to dump this problem on the poor little schoolteacher.

There are two kinds of Christians: false and accurate. How do you determine which one is accurate? Would you want the religious group that sent Christ to the cross to come into our schools teaching its theories? The people of that day thought that group was righteous and holy. But where they?

MONICA METZGER

Jackson