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Originally Posted by GGG
The only reason there is a claim of human rights being violated is because Jesus happens to be a popular deity.
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Or rather Jesus happens to be a deity of a subset of the population.
If someone prayed to Santa, then everyone would be equally confused and/or left out so there's no marginalization going on, no human rights claim.
The Santa equivalence only works from the perspective of a non-believer, because all imaginary beings are imaginary to a non-believer.
For a believer the Santa equivalence doesn't work because a different religion still believes in god(s), so promoting Yahweh over Allah/Shiva/Odin/Wotan isn't the same.
Good angle though, I like it when someone brings up really a different way of looking at it.