@rooeytoo This trhead has slowed a bit, so lets pad the response count by expanding on that point until someone comes up with something more response-provoking.
In that vein, many Americans don’t really know anything about any other religions except that Jews are bankers, Muslims are terrorists, and Buddhists are ass-kicking martial artists.Think about this; how many Americans actually attend church? Or read the Bible? Of that latter group, how many actually know anything about the Bible? Hint; studies have shown that Pagans and Muslims know more about The Bible than most sects of Christianity. Christians may not be the majority that they think they are; we seem to have a lot of Agnostics running around. Also note that, at least in the US, Atheists are often seen as being immoral and actually slightly worse than pedophiles while Agnostics are seen as just as immoral but lacking the strength of an Atheist because we allegedly have no beliefs at all. So, with that in mind, how many are willing to admit that they actually don’t have a religion?
Now, even as a devout Agnostic, I see no real harm in a few crosses and mangers in December, and feel that there is no harm in having a religion that makes up a sizable portion of our population be allowed to display their faith openly. Granted, it’s a holiday that they stole from the Pagans, but c’est la vie. Some people are a bit too sensitive, but what it really boils down to s how much harm those beliefs do. A bunch of naked people dancing around a Maypole? Harmless. Depriving same-sex couples of the rights heterosexual couples enjoy? The best that can be said about that is the counter-arguments are fallacious and nothing more than religious bigotry.
BTW, you want to offend religious people? Eat a bacon cheeseburger. Some religions don’t eat meat, some (Judaism) don’t mix meat and dairy, at least two major religions object to eating bacon. Yes, the Bacon Cheeseburger is Blasphemy on a Bun! And the bun pisses off the Atkins Diet people too, so you can offend yet another group with it.