It's a war on (insert popular belief here)!

I'm going to explain the war on Christmas (God, Jesus, Christianity and any other popular belief)

It's literally the realization that the choices faced by anyone who celebrates or believes a less popular faith and holiday is a really shitty choice. Being forced to say Happy Holidays isn't removing your freedom of speech, it's placing you at the same level of freedom allowed to those who celebrate Yule. Not being able to wear a religious token at work doesn't just apply to people who wear pentacles. It's applies to the people wearing crosses to.

You're choice it to either find a small private business the follows your beliefs and lets you wish people Merry Christmas and lets you tell them about Jesus, or to work for wherever it is you work and be all inclusive in your speech.

It's a shitty choice. It's the choice the rest of us have always had to live with under the guise that this is what freedom is. Apparently what freedom really is is being able to openly celebrate whatever you want wherever you want regardless of how noninclusive the stuff your saying is or how it may make the people around you feel isolated.

Apparently freedom is only for the Majority, because when the majority gets the same freedoms as the rest of us they feel like they're being oppressed. However, when the minorities express their feelings of oppression they're told that they're imagining it and that they're just trying to put the Majority down.

It's like no one realizes how much shit the minorities put up with. How smaller religious beliefs have just learned to deal with keeping their religions to themselves because they'd get treated differently or discriminated against (even if it's against the law). How I have yet to confess my agnostic atheism to my family because I have no idea how they'd react to it. How they have no idea that I go out of my way to follow the teachings of Jesus because his part of the bible was the only part that made sense (love, forgiveness, and kindness to everyone, even those who hurt you). But the Christians who feel like telling me I need to find God are so hateful and hurtful towards people who are different.

I'm off topic now (kinda) but I'll leave the important message bolded. There.

XoXo,
S