Football coach baptizing on school property

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18. With all due respect it does hurt

Do you have any atheists in that school? What about Buddhist? Jews? Islamists? Satanists?

Do they get equal time for their holidays?

In the past I have been unrelenting and openly hostile in my feelings on religion, any religion. I have always felt It should be crushed out of existence. Religions spread hate, ignorance, violence and intolerance.

I have softened that opinion with an exception: as long as said religious person/people keep their views and beliefs to themselves and never use it to influence public policy or discourse, keeping their perspective private, than I don't care.

Putting up decorations, outside your home much less at a school, violates that exception.

Essentially, this is normalizing, acclimating, people to their religious norms, specifically, their religious norms.
Because, even among Christians, the dates for holidays like Christmas and Easter, can be very different.
Celebrating Christmas was even against the law in the US in the early years and was rarely celebrated until the 1840s.
We need less of these things, not more.

A great deal of the conflict in out society, from climate change to healthcare, is in conflict because of evangelicals Christians in the US.

We have to halt this influence on public thought and discourse or it will be the ruin of us all.