First, in case you don't know this, I am Christian, too. Catholic, to be precise, which, of course, many fundamentalist Evangelical Protestants don't consider to be "really Christian," given that they believe that the Pope is the anti-Christ and all that.
Where I grew up, there were, and are, plenty of people who hated Catholics as bad as they hated blacks and Jews.
Thank goodness, they were, and are, for the most part, marginalized.
Second, I would actually prefer to see no expression of religion at all that depends on government money. You see, government gets its money via coercion from the taxpayer, and there is something especially irksome about paying taxes to support someone else's religion - or even my own.
Third, as a fall back, if the government coerces tax money to express any religion, it should express all religions, not just a select one or few. |
