one of my father’s hindu colleagues was surprised that my family didn’t make everyone say a christian prayer before we sat down to eat dinner. we were like “….this is your house.” and she laughed and said that her christian friends “make” her pray all the time. like what the fuck. how fucking rude can you be to make the host pray to your god. you are in their fucking house.
I say this as a former Christian
Christians will deadass claim to be oppressed but feel comfortable and safe enough to:
Force non-Christians to pray to the Christian God in their own fucking homes
Go door-to-door to proselytize
Call people to proselytize
Take classes to proselytize (my mythology teacher actually dealt with this, and now has to include a warning on the first day of class)
Cross the fucking ocean to proselytize
Openly tell people they think they are going to Hell
Insist that their beliefs should influence the law
Get all pissy if someone says this isn’t a Christian nation, but a beautifully mixed one.
Have radio stations built around their religion
Have movies based on their religion
And fucking everything else
In short, Christian Supremacy needs to be addressed and religious imperialism stopped.
Tell children who are forced to go to Christian/Catholic schools by their parents that they have to pray at school with everyone else and if they don’t like it they shouldnt be at a Christian/Catholic school, despite said children not having any say in what school they attend because they’re children
I don’t think most Christians realize how much space they take up in American society. They’re basically the default and anyone who isn’t Christian is supposed to just go with it. It fucking sucks.
I wasn’t religious as a kid, but I still kept my mom’s lil Durga statue in my room, because Durga was kinda cool and it made my mom happy.
One of my earliest memories of someone being explicitly and specifically Christian in their actions, was when I had my friend/neighboring family’s kid over at my house for the first time. She’d asked what that statue was and I’d explained that it was a Hindu goddess, from “my mom’s religion”. Not even mine, mind you, as I pretty much was an Atheist even by then - but still, this was part of my heritage, part of my upbringing, and part of my household.
Not too long after, she literally drew a simple picture of Durga/a stick figure woman with a dozen arms…and then crossed it out and captioned it “Not Real”, leaving it among all the other papers on my desk when she went back home that night.
Could you imagine the riot if I’d ever done the same to her? If I’d gone to her house and, when she proudly showed me a cross or some little art or trinket of Jesus, if I’d drawn a picture of him and crossed it out and captioned it “not real”?
We were extremely young, and she was mostly a nice girl, so in retrospect I try not to be too hard on her. She was homeschooled, and I rather expect her parents home-schooled her specifically to indoctrinate her religiously. But in many ways, that should tell you something right there - that she was so young (like ~8-9 years old), and yet already her parents were raising her to think and behave that way.
In elementary school I made the mistake of telling someone I wasn’t Christian and everyone told me I was going to hell until I lied and said I “believed.” Literally second grade kids felt comfortable telling me I was going to hell. I didn’t feel safe enough to tell anyone else until I was in 8th grade and I met someone who was non-Christian.
it’s not just american society it’s a large portion of the world
