J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.

From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

At the last meeting of the Board of Education, Mr. Maegher called attention to the chanting of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools, which is a violation of a rule which forbids the introduction of religious matters. We are glad this subject has come up at last. The Lord's Prayer has been brought into disrespect about long enough by being snarled through the dirty noses of a hundred bad boys and preposterous girls.

If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

In a pluralistic society, public schools are places for persons of all faiths and none. Schools may neither promote nor denigrate any religion.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.