Bill O'Reilly: Public Schools Are Ignoring God!

[JDPriestly]

12. My kids started school in Austria, and every school day with a prayer:

Lieber Gott, Steh mir bei, dass ich brav und fleissig sei.

Which means:

Dear God, Stand by me so that I will be well-behaved and hard-working.

Great prayer -- from the teacher's point of view.

I don't think it hurt my kids one bit, but that prayer was clearly about control -- not a bad thing in a classroom of seven-year-olds.

And that is what O'Reilly is about -- wanting to control others or more accurately, wanting to push other people around.

And, of course, the average age and education of his viewers -- probably around seven years old. Maybe a few nine- or ten-year-olds, but they are definitely in the minority.