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To: Brumar89 who wrote (216335)	8/20/2007 6:54:11 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793912

No, of course not, as long as that's where it stays- as a personal belief outside the public venue. I spent too many years as a Christian to be threatened by them (some of my very best friends, etc). But I leaped from one train of thought to another in that post and it was confusing. I apologize. You know how your head goes way faster than your typing, and I was thinking about stuff like Judge Roy and his Ten Commandments that many Christians saw absolutely no problem with, or praying in schools, or the myriad issues that non-Christians took on and Christians were really stunned and then angry. I may have seen more of it because I live in Texas, but they felt they were being persecuted, and couldn't get their minds around the idea that maybe, just maybe, they were imposing their beliefs in places it didn't belong, but had been accepted these many years. (And yes, I do think the pendulum may have gone too far) You mention Christians not forcing their beliefs on others. I am not sure if you meant because they didn't behead people, but we had several incidents of it with the boys in high school, and I sure have seen it in my years accompanying. My favorite story was when my outspoken atheist son, CW, came home with an assignment in AP English, a report on Henry Miller. I was a little surprised, mentioning that he was a somewhat sexually lurid writer, and he said, "yeah, the teacher said that she was giving him to me because we weren't Christians and wouldn't care." There was also the sports banquet where they announced the track award, and we were sitting with my son's best friend's family- Muslims- and the coach announced the boy who won, and described him as the ideal- a hardworking, CHRISTIAN boy- and he said this several times. It's this mentality that pervades, and I don't really believe it's malicious, but oh, it is there, and when you see it used against your children, you notice it.