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Originally Posted by photon
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. |
I agree that a believer could have his rights violated but the atheist in this case who is claiming his rights were violated can't. To him at most this was a bunch of words he had to wait patiently thought until it was over. So maybe a failure of Separation of Church and State but not a human rights violation.