Discrimination, oppression, and the War on Christianity

[Cecelia]

I was an assistant volunteer coach. We having a team prayer for years and pray over our victory meals. It wasn't until an atheist parent's child joined and they felt the need to make it a point that I was released to save the drama. At no point was there discrimination or oppression of the boys based on their participation in the prayer or personal beliefs it was solely a SJW point. At no point was anyone forced to participate. I will agree that telemarketing wasn't the job for me. But I was still fired for refusing to lie. If I weren't a Christian and just refused to lie I probably would have been fired as well, so that's probably a bad example.

This here is the mindset of Christian Privilege in a nutshell.

Imagine for a moment that you lived in an area where Christianity wasn't the default.  This will be hard, because you've lived in such an area your entire life, and have no idea what it's like for anyone else.  But a little bit of empathy goes a long way, I find.

Now imagine that you lived in an area where everyone was an Atheist.  They have freedom of religion, but 75% of the country are atheists.  And you have a son who's on the baseball team.  Every day before the game the coach and most of the boys -- not all, since participation is not mandatory -- say an affirmation:  "There is no god, the bible's nothing but a lie.  Now let's play this game, and give it our best try!" 
You think the atheist children might not think differently of the ones who are saying it?  Because i can guarantee you the Christian children who say their prayer with their coach think differently of the ones who don't.  You might not see it -- but it's there.  There's a hidden pressure for these kids to go along with it, especially when it's by an authority figure.

But this is difficult for you to understand because you live in a country where your religion is the 'default'.  You can't experience the feeling these kids who don't participate have.  You can't even see it.  There's a peer pressure involved here.  That the prayer is 'voluntary' is meaningless when there's a pressure to conform.