Dear Christians, stop pushing your nonsense on the rest of us

Not everyone in the United States is a Christian.

I feel I will lose friends or followers from this, but I have to get this off my chest.

I am not a Christian. Yes, I celebrate Christmas but the secular parts of it. You know presents for friends and family and food. I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance in the first grade because I wasn’t sure if there was a god. After years of thinking about it and reading about it, I just cannot support the idea that an invisible being lives in the sky. Moreover, why did he send his son (who is also god?) to die for our sins. Who was he appeasing? When human sacrifices were a thing, they were done to appease the gods. If god is omnipotent and controls everything, why did anyone have to be sacrificed? And to be fair, if you believe the Bible is historical fact, Jesus didn’t stay dead. He was back a few days later. So what was the sacrifice?

Generally, I am a “live and let live” kind of person but now Christians are making the rest of us live by their fairy tales. After the Roe v Wade reversal, one GOP politician from the south said, “I have to listen to the man upstairs.” WTF? Now, the Supremes have ruled coaches can pray after school games. People on the right will say this shouldn’t infringe on anyone’s right to NOT pray with the coach but anyone who has ever been on any kind of team knows that the coach has a lot of sway. Non-Christians may feel pressured because of the position the…