We Are a Secular Nation, cont.

A (new) reader writes:

Do you make the same stereotypical assumptions about everyone? THIS Christian does not stand in agreement with the Christian Defense Coalition, and in fact agrees totally with your viewpoint.

On the other hand, I am not offended. In fact I usually have a problem with those easily offended. I am just not surprised at the ignorance of some who would have serious problems making generalities about just about any group in America, but find no problem in not extending the same courtesy to those who happen to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

I have had a serious problem with Christianists, not Christians. Christians would not take offense with the request by the White House to shroud over anything that wasn't flag and drape. That being said, if you see Obama giving a policy speech about government matters on American soil in front of a crescent/sword or a Star of David, please point it out to me.

Christianists (think of them as Islamists without bombs), on the other hand, make it a point to politicize everything that has to do with their religion, with the express intent of turning our beautiful, secular Constitution into an extension of the Christian Bible. I neither begrudge Christians their beliefs nor would want to silence them. I simply want an acknowledgment from the most vocal and extremist wing of Christianity that America is a nation that, while having some minimal roots in western religious thought, ceases to exist if there is any single religion favored over another.

Those who want to delude themselves into thinking that Jesus was a white, southern American Republican living in the suburbs of Atlanta or Greenville, SC, that's fine. But don't assume that the rest of us think that way (or should think that way).