Mathew 6:6 "But when you pray, go into your (closet) room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."Praying should be in private, or in special praying places. School is for learning, work is for work, and the worship places are for worship. The constitution allowed the freedom of religion or the freedom of having no religion and that is what makes America Great! Religion should be in the heart not in public. Expressing religion in public to others soon will cause favoritism and make the majority force their religion on the minority. Believe me, I was there. Imagine being a minority living in a predominantly ISIS or Taliban society! How would you feel about shutting down workplaces, roads, and streets for praying? It happens every day in countries with a dominant religion since most people must go to pray at the same time. How would you feel about being treated based on your religion or belief, since it would be declared? There is over a1000 populous religion in the world, each is followed by millions or billions and there are 1000s of non-populous religions. Most of these religions contradict each other and claim the ownership of the real one god or gods. Expressing religion may suit a closed or tribal society but not a diverse multi-cultural multi-social society like the U.S. Expressing religion may sound like freedom but it will definitely lead to frictions and tribalism because we cannot accommodate thousands of contradicting beliefs but Peace, Love, and Humanity can do
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