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I’m sure there are those out there cramming their beliefs down other’s throats, but I can’t understand how a typical Christian’s rights, exercised in public, somehow means another’s rights and freedoms are being suppressed.

For instance...if Christmas is banned from public schools (often while other religions get a free pass), how was it all those prior years that Christian kids celebrating Christmas in various forms somehow harmed another non-Christian kid?

If a Christmas tree is displayed in a town square, or a cross on public land, etc. how does that limit another’s freedoms?

If Under God is in the Pledge, how does that “harm” or suppress the freedom’s of one that doesn’t believe in God?

In other words, if an atheist doesn’t even BELIEVE there’s a God, how can another person’s belief in something that doesn’t exist HARM them or impinge on their rights or freedom’s not to believe?

I’m sure there are examples, but for the vast majority of cases I’ve seen, the very opposite has been true. A concerted effort is being made to remove Christianity from the public(again while giving other religions a free pass).

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I honestly do not see the Christmas tree as a Religious symbol, and there are a couple of reasons for that: A) The tree was a Pagan symbol to help ease the Heathens into Christianity, B) Christmas has become so commercialized that it hardly resembles anything religious unless you put out a nativity scene.

With the "Under God", it seems like such a simple compromise to not say it if you don't want to.

I don't get bothered by the typical Christian, because from the many Christians I know I get a "Live and Let Live" type of attitude that doesn't feel like anything is forced, it doens't feel like I'm being placed under attack. The type of Christian that bothers me is the one who tries to get rid of Halloween in the schools, who goes outside of High Schools with pictures of Aborted Babies, the one who tells children they are going to hell because they like "Harry Potter". That seems like they are forcing their beliefs onto others, and that is what I disagree with.