The claim or thesis for this argument is that citizens of the United stated should in fact resist school prayer because it in the end supports violence.
The premises behind this statement are; one: prayer is a rather large aspect to religion; two: school prayer would be supporting religion; three: that religion has across the world caused turmoil and destruction.
Is this argument valid or invalid? The first reason is valid, prayer is a large part of what religion and having a belief in a higher power is all about. The second reason is valid, school prayer would show that the school system and those whom are head of the school systems support religion and all the aspects to it; especially praying. The third reason is also valid, more or less every week (even day) there is a new news story about some kind of religious fight happening between towns, states, countries. Everyone is always going to fight about religion. It has and always will be a part of the world and the basis for many of the trails and heart ache. Over all the reasons behind this argument are all valid.
However, I think that this argument is not sound. I’m sure that there are tons of articles about school violence and bullying being caused by religious differences but, I don’t feel that this implies that school prayer would be the equivalent to supporting violence, because not everyone is going to understand that perspective.
