I really am sick of hearing the majority religion in this country moaning about how they are being "discriminated against". It is so absurd and ridiculous.

The Christian God is printed on all of our money. The American Pledge had the Christian God added to it in the 1950's and it is recited in every school and before every major sporting event. "Christian" (in actuality holidays that Christians laid claim to long ago but weren't actually theirs) holidays are celebrated, some considered non-working days (and exploited for monetary gain) by the entire country. It is incredibly hard to get elected for a public office (until recently was pretty much unheard of) if you are not a Christian. As was mentioned, Christian churches are every where. Fundamentalists have their huge, big ol' fat hand deep in the pockets of our politicians and make it widely known without repercussion.

You are not being discriminated against just because you don't get your way 100% of the time. That's called democracy. America is NOT a theocracy. America was NOT founded on Christian principals NOR was it meant to be a Christian nation. If it were meant to be so then it would have been explicitly stated by our non-Christian founders.

Christians are NOT discriminated against in this country. You don't see Hindus complaining because their religious holidays are being taken out of our secular schools. Why? Because they were never included in the first place? And why? Because they are not Christian. Seriously. Stop being ridiculous. It's so frustrating. '

Personally, I see nothing wrong with people, in secular public schools, wearing necklaces or t-shirts or whatever if it has a symbol of their particular faith on it. There is no harm in that. But keep the religious holidays out of it (Christmas has pretty much become just a way for big businesses to make money but it is still linked with religion - kids generally aren't even in school during Christmas anyway so I don't see what the big deal is with just replacing a 'Christmas feeling' in schools with a 'winter feeling' - many people forget that there are a large number of people in this country who do not celebrate Christmas) and then everyone can be happy and whatnot.

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