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“God is great, and food.” God is good, and we thank Him for this food “Those are fighting words in some school districts, and federal courts have rendered contradictory decisions on whether or not it is permissible, under the Constitution, to ask the blessing of the Deity upon a school lunch. Yet I think that we will suffer less of this bathos in future.

For one thing, even the Warren Court now hesitates to intrude farther into the realm of school management—particularly on the burning questions of religious veneration and teaching about religion. Indeed, what Chief Justice Warren probably did not intend actually may come to pass: that is, public schools may pay more attention to matters of religion than they did formerly, and in a fashion more intelligent. Now that much of the American public has been roused to resentment by court meddling in such matters, serious study is being directed to what can and should be taught concerning faith and morals.

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“God is great, and food.” God is good, and we thank Him for this food “Those are fighting words in some school districts, and federal courts have rendered contradictory decisions on whether or not it is permissible, under the Constitution, to ask the blessing of the Deity upon a school lunch. Yet I think that we will suffer less of this bathos in future.

For one thing, even the Warren Court now hesitates to intrude farther into the realm of school management—particularly on the burning questions of religious veneration and teaching about religion. Indeed, what Chief Justice Warren probably did not intend actually may come to pass: that is, public schools may pay more attention to matters of religion than they did formerly, and in a fashion more intelligent. Now that much of the American public has been roused to resentment by court meddling in such matters, serious study is being directed to what can and should be taught concerning faith and morals.