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Re: Christmas and Schools

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Originally Posted by Blacknight
Christianity isn't creating a Monopoly w/ their religion. One cannot. You cannot crush another religion. If one beleives in something, truly beleives, then their religion isn't being crushed if another religion is growing.
These are the words of the unoppressed; someone who has never, in their lifetime, had to defend their religion or faith from anything more than an intellectual challenge. They are the words of someone who has not been persecuted for their beliefs by being interned in work camps or subjected to intensified scrutiny in the interest of national security; someone who's people weren't killed for their beliefs. Are you unfamiliar with genocide?

The world's history shows that our ability to express our faith can and has been crushed, obscured and rendered impossible by the actions of other religious groups. Our government is not concerned with what is in our minds -- it cannot and does not legislate against thought, largely -- and is most concerned with what action we take. It is concerned with giving us each the opportunity to peacefully celebrate our religion without fear of consequence from those who disagree. It is illegal to employ racist business practices; it is not illegal to have racist thoughts. Freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression are synonymous, even in occupying the text of the first amendment to the Constitution, so your assertion that they cannot be crushed is proven by history to be patently wrong.

Perhaps a more careful review of my previous post will illuminate some historical facts about the Christian celebration of Christmas that are eluding you. It was adopted by the Church expressly as a means of supplanting the religious observances of other religion. It is a paramount example showing precisely how religion can seek to deny the expression of other religious beliefs and how historically baseless your points are.
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