You are welcome although I just offer examples of what you already told them.
Many people doesn’t understand that wages are negotiated yearly for a number of hour a day and that the calculation is adjusted with PTOs and “days off” that might be or not holy days. For example, in US 4th July is a secular festive day, not a holy day. To calculate working hours, that day off is the same as Christmas.
If someone works on those days (and some people do), they are working 8+ hours more that people who get to enjoy that day off. The fair thing is that those people get another day. But even then, there is a substantial difference. Because while the “official” days off are already negotiated and set, the ones you get in compensation need to be approved by a manager. That is unfair, because religious days off didn’t need an specific approval by a manager. The manager have to argue the case of someone working on that day instead.
That is privilege. And they are so used to have that privilege, that they really believe that they get the day off because religion, that without religion they would have to work that day. No, they wouldn’t, they would have one more PTO that would need approval, but still would be either paid or enjoyed.
In the same line, they are so used for their beliefs to get tax cuts an receive tax money, that they didn’t even consider that they are getting atheist tax money for thing that only them enjoy (and that might very well piss the atheist), while atheist doesn’t get tax cuts or money for the things they believe.
That is the reason for the church of bacon or the satanist, to try to even the field. How absurd is that? That you need to create an obvious fake church in order to enjoy something less unequal.
And yet, Christians claim that since now it is not forbidden to be atheist and they are not burning witches, that the field is even. No, it is not. IT would be even when no tax money at all is given to any religion. When tax cuts for religions or donations to churches are allowed, when they need to negotiate that they allow them to use a PTO on Christmas, and so on. Because that is how it works for everyone else.
Anyway, it was to be expected that Christians would complain about your article, admitting their privilege might lead to lose it, and that won’t do. XD
