How To Make Issues of Faith And Integrity Worthless To Your Child When I worked in Nigeria, the school I worked at was dominated by Southern Baptist families. After consolidating power over the school board, they demanded that all students, whether Christian or Muslim, MUST attend chapel and MUST recite the Lord's prayer. At the time, I felt as though this amounted to ENFORCED INSINCERITY. Now that the supreme court has upheld "One Nation Under God", I'm sure they've assured that, when your son or daughter sees his/her peers reciting the pledge or confessing to belief in God, they're saying it because they're FORCED TO, not because they really believe it. We now have a distrubing spiritual precident, in addition to the legal one. MacBeth, in his despair, said life is "...All sound and fury, signifying nothing". It doesn't have to be that way. "Sound and fury signifying nothing" comes from the mouths of children forced into insincerity. A few months ago, the cover on a popular magazine read "God Bless Athiests". The point was that Athiests, like any other philosophical, moral, political, or ethical bloc in a democratic society, sharpens the acumen of Theists. In the marketplace of ideas, the best ideology will win out. Are we afraid of Atheism?...If we weren't we wouldn't mind levelling the legal playing field.