Religions in America

How to put it all politely...Priests are justifiable blasted because there are many bad apples, Christian churches get blasted because many couldn't care less about the religion as long as they are getting their money, talking harshly (or worse) about any other religion has been deemed a hate crime (I don't know if it is a hate crime to vandalize a run of the mill, predominantly white, Methodist church, but probably not even though it should be which is what I assume is the point you're trying to make). Mormons had to alter their religion to suit the government and the ones who stayed true to it (FLDS) are frequently pestered by the authorities. I think there is a lot of religion bashing from all sides. Christians get bashed by "everybody else", Muslims get bashed by a lot of ignorant people, non religious people get bashed by all the religious people, Pagans and Wiccans get bashed by many, many people. But there's a difference between 'bashing' and 'discriminating'. Everbody bashes everybody and I think that's spead around fairly equally. Muslims seem to be the ones openly 'discriminated' against the most.

Hands down - Islam is the most discriminated against religion today in the US.

I think it starts with some people who hate religion of all kinds and Christianity being the main church in the US and Europe all these years, they are in the forefront of a campaign to bring down religion by people who are tired of having religion forced upon them beginning during a time when freedom of religion was condemned in Europe but is not so prevalent now because of the Bill of Rights and the amendment on freedom of religion. But, you still occasionaly run into someone who forces his religion on others and the slight mention of religion makes some people think you are about to give a sermon. However, there are a great many good people in all religions as well as non-religious activities, who are trying to do good work and improve society. Laws preventing them from advocating good sensible ideas such as when the 10 commandments became banned in schools possibly made things worse. Those commandments are good sensible rules to live by and since the bible has been revised so many times, why not just list them as good sensible set of rules any person can follow if he chooses, and leave out the "Thou shalt." That way it would just be good advice and not an order. So, in the final analysis, I think it would be a good idea to just show respect for all people of good will, religious or not. Then there would be no more discrimination against any religion.