Stupid Email Forwards

I have recently started receiving from an email contact every "Jesus" email message ever created. The latest is an "authentic, UN-touched" picture of an American flag and the way the light shines through it there is a glowing image of a cross where the stars appear. Isn't that amazing! Personally, I found the image of the Virgin Mary in the grilled cheese a little bit more moving, because, come on, it's the image of the Virgin Mary AND it's a tasty grilled cheese sandwich.

I find the picture offensive. I know it seems silly, but the concept of freedom from a government imposed religion is one of tenants upon which our government is based. This is the "land of the free," not the land of the Christians. Anyway, I'm so sick of the lack of religious tolerance I'm seeing from people, or at least what I'm perceiving. Go ahead and be a Christian cheerleader, but please remember there are people with as much reason as you to believe in a different set of spiritual realities. And they are Americans, too. And the flag isn't a symbol of Christianity. It's a symbol of a country. A country made up of many different people of many different religions.

Rant over.