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So mote it be.

There's more than one America. In many states, people won't care.

However, it's not an agnostic issue. Any non-Christian has a hard time being accepted. Christians have a good reason for not wanting to accept others. Their religion is centered on faith, and questioning its precepts shows a lack of faith and is forbidden. It also won't stand up very well to even minor scrutiny. They know that, and that's why they have been supressing the views of other religions for so long.

If you start out saying that the Hebrew bible is the basis for your religion, then you had better keep the Jews quiet or they can tell people what it really says. If you take contradictory teachings as the literal word of God, then you had better keep people from debating it. If they do, it's best to tell them that it shows a lack of faith and they are going to hell for it.

The reality is that not all religions are based primarily on the notion of faith above all else. The reality is that Christianity is based far more on Greek mythology than it is on Judaism. And the fact is that you won't find Buddhists, Jews, Bahai, or even most American Muslims telling you that theirs is the only way and you are destined for hell if you don't do things exactly their way.

Christian fundamentalists are simply unpatriotic and unAmerican. They don't care about our rights or our Constitution. If they hate our country so much, they can jsut leave as far as I'm concerned.

Most Christian rituals and holidays are based on pagan rituals and celebrations, but they don't want to know. Christianity is based on blind faith; they refuse to see that. Examples are: Communion. It's based on the practice of "cakes and ale" after a pagan ritual. Easter. Taken from the pagan fertility celebration known as Ostara at the spring equinox. Eggs and bunnies are fertility symbols; baby chicks and lambs are symbols of the new life that spring brings. As a matter of fact, the reason that Easter is always on a different date each year is that it is the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox. And why does Santa have reindeer? Because the pagan nature god is the horned man, often represented by a stag.

I've had conversations with Christians where I told them that the books of the New Testament were written starting about 90 years after the crucifixtion. Then I ask them if they remember playing "Gossip" in grade school: the teacher whispers a sentence into the ear of the first student, who passes it on to the next, and so on. By the time it gets to the last kid, the sentence is completely different from the original. What do they suppose happens to a story that goes 90 years before someone, in fact, several someones, write it down? But they don't listen; they can't listen. They don't want to know.

Religion is like sexuality; it needs to be kept private, as it can be an explosive issue. I just smile and nod when people talk about God and Jesus; when they say "God bless you" or "I'll pray for you" I thank them, because their intentions are good. But I keep my beliefs or lack thereof to myself; it avoids conflict and negativity. I suggest you do the same. Even though Christianity is a johnny-come-lately religion that tells you that God loves you and forgives you and then threatens to send you to everlasting damnation in the fires of hell. I personally want no part of any religion that demands that I get down on my knees and worship any entity.

You sound bitter to me.

Bitter? No. Smart? Perhaps. Smart for being silent about not wanting to conform to someone elses way of thinking. I find that in todays society the amount of ridicule and persecution you get on a social level for not being a christian is terrible. And then tell some one you don't believe in any form of god at all or follow a particular religion. At least the "you sound bitter" person kept it to only that. Truthfully I feel that most "christians" fail to realize that there is a difference between faith and religion. If you are going to have faith in a hire being thats all well and good for you. But don't point fingers and lay blame and damnation at,on,and to, people that dont practice their beliefs the same way as you. And by the way... what happened to the seperation of church and state? There is even an old saying that comments about not mixing religion and politics. Oops. Did I just do that? You know, Star Bellied Sneeches had this sort of problem once. The high point is, they got their problems worked out. The low point is, I feel, we have a long time and alot of work to do before we as people get our social termoils worked out. Yes, a few more politoreligical wars and quite possibly several centuries later we might be able to "all get along."