Bringing God Back To America

I HEARD IT on Christian radio, or read it in a post on Facebook, or both, I cannot reacall which. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. What matters is the message itself; "We must birng God back to America". This means the same thing, I assume, as "put God back in America", I believe is a frequent way of saying it. Although it is a very vague, general statment, I think I know what it means, what they are saying. The conservative Christian community, tens of millions strong, wants to restore formal, administration mandated and sanctioned public group prayer in American public schools, like it uased to be. I can remember our first grade class praying every day before school, along with I believe the "Pledge of Allegiance", in 1961-62. Then, in second grade, I'm pretty sure that we didn't pray as a class in school, ever again, because the Supreme Court had eliminated it in a major ruling. Ont of the things they want to do, beyond doubt, is for the Surpreme Court, the president, they aren't particular whom, to restore the public prayer to the public schools. Put God back in the schools. The Christian God. What about the other Gods, the other religions? That remains a fair question. Te conservtvie Christian community not only wants to put "God back into America and American schools, it wants to formally, officially put the Christian God and thus the Christian religion therein. What about the other religions? There are millions of Jews, Muslims, and others in America. Sometimes in America the prayer the religions aspect of civic events has consisted of a prayer to a sort of generic God of no particular religion, simply the God of the universe, implying the same God in any and every religion. At my local small town Senior Center, of which I have been an integral part since I turned sixty and joined eight years ago, we recite the "Pledge" and say a prayer every week day before lunch. When I started going there they prayed, but we started adding the pledge a few years ago because, and only because of... one reason,..one person... me. For several years I lobbied one director afer another, until I finally got permission to stand and lead the pledge every day. Little old pantheist - socialist me, bringing the pledge to the senior center. Not only am I a democratic socialist rather than a capitalist; but a non-Christian, an atheist according to them, a pantheist according to me. The daily prayer is pure fundamentalist evangelical Christian. That's what they mainly are. Except, often depending on who delivers it. Everybody has a different prayer style, and different people get to lead the prayer.Often it is directly spoken to God, with no mention of salvation through Christ, the shed blood, washing away sins with the blood of Christ, or any of that. Just God. Even the conservative evangelicals sometimes pray like that. Just God, no specifically Christian dogma. When its my turn to pray, I do it better than any of them, in my humble opinion. I use phases like "great eternal spirit", and "grateful for this unvierse and live"..very poetic, emotional, and they love it. We all pray differently, but I more differently, uniquely than anyone, by a mile, and yet,and yet..I get away with it! Nobody at the senior has ever complained to me about the way I pray, unless they did behind my back, which I rather doubt. So, who knows? Maybe there is hope. Maybe we can somehow all evolve, and come together more, spiritually, more as a nation, a people, and, above all else, come together more as a world. In truth, we do not need to put God back in America, or bring God back, because God never left America. Anybody who wants to pray in public school, or anywhere else in America, can do so whenever one wants. And, best of all, when we pray silently, we can pray to whatever God we want, want to believe in, or invent.