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when people say they’re not religious, they’re looking to pick a fight
or at least start an argument. That’s probably because people who
identify themselves as atheists or agnostics are often as dogmatic as
Cotton Mather and have merely made a religion of their own non-belief.
In my case, however, religion simply plays no role in my life. Or
perhaps I should say institutionalized religion, seeing as how I very
much subscribe to the Judeo-Christian value system. It’s the
reason that I’m so grateful that two sets of Russian Jewish
grandparents had the guts to pack up their kids and caboodle, and move
to America.
Unfortunately, they and many others like them included in their baggage
several hundred years worth of religious antagonisms. In
far too many cases, these fears and prejudices, although initially
well-founded, have been passed along like precious heirlooms from one
generation to the next.
Even among some of my friends and relatives, there are those who
half-expect their Christian neighbors to start organizing pogroms any
day now. They remain unconvinced that Hitler and the Nazis were
pagans. And even when I point out that it was American and
British soldiers, mainly Christians, who brought down the Third Reich
and liberated the concentration camps, it often falls on deaf ears.
So, although I do not accept that we are all fallen creatures or that
Jesus Christ died for my sins, I am thankful that I live in a Christian
nation. [I’m Happy To Live In A Christian Nation]
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