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Why should I limit the practice of my religion to my "home or church"? Must we Christians really stay behind closed doors to practice Christianity? If I leave my house, must I then become an Atheist, since that's the only religion permitted in public in America now?

According to this new "keep religion to home and church standard" I hear tossed about lately, I can't whisle a hymn at work, read a Bible on a park bench, wear a cross to the grocery store, or put a dollar in a Salvvation Army kettle.

I'm not sure you really mean what your words say. Please be careful. You really can't mean to set a standard disallowing all non-Athiestic religions except "at home or church".

I'm not sure you really mean what your words say. Please be careful. You really can't mean to set a standard disallowing all non-Athiestic religions except "at home or church".

Allow me to expnad and elaborate: no, of course not. All of these (I can't whisle a hymn at work, read a Bible on a park bench, wear a cross to the grocery store, or put a dollar in a Salvvation Army kettle.) are absolutely fine with me. Wearing a cross or Star of David in church? Fine.

"Why should I limit the practice of my religion to my "home or church"? Must we Christians really stay behind closed doors to practice Christianity? If I leave my house, must I then become an Atheist, since that's the only religion permitted in public in America now?
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Nobody's suggesting any such thing, and if they are, they are wrong to do so. Christians, and followers of other religions, are quite free to practice their religion in public. I see it all the time around me. What they are not permitted to do is to force others to participate or to use the government to endorse their particular religion.

Try this: Go down to your local park with your Bible and begin teaching from it. You may get some listeners, and you may not, but nobody's going to officially tell you to go away. You may not be allowed to use a bullhorn, since that might disturb other users of the park, but you can certainly preach there, if you like.

Now, if you try to teach your religion at the city council meeting or in a courtroom when other business is being carried on, you'll be asked to stop, of course, but that's only fair.

Atheists don't care if you believe or worship. Why on earth would we. We only care when you force others to participate in your worship. In the park, I can simply walk away to another location. In the courtroom or city council chambers, or the classroom, I may not be able to do so. Fair's fair.

The left and the activist justices that subscribe to the "keep religion out of public life" philosophy tell us that it's oppressive for homosexuals to keep it in their own home but oppressive to all if Christians don't.

As homosexuals go out of the closet, it seems Christians are getting shoved in.