"We don’t need to give up on God."
No. Let's wait another 2k years and see if he does something useful. Maybe he's just a bit slow.
"God is what made this country great to begin with."
Yeah. Obviously it wasn't the vision and leadership of countless individuals all working to make a system as flawed as government actually work in some fashion that's beneficial to all rather than an elite few.
"What we do need to do is to start telling these people to get out of our lives."
Stay out of theirs and keep your religion out of government and you're not likely to have any problems. Unfortunately, you don't want that, do you? No, you want to have the ability to bully people into doing things the way you want them done without anything like it happening to you in kind.
"If they don’t believe in God, that’s their choice but they need to show as much respect for our religion as they demand for their race, sexual preference, non-religion, etc."
Why should I respect obvious delusion? Mental illness should be cured, not coddled.
"...I think that Christians are being attacked daily far more than any minority."
You're not being "attacked" and you're sure as hell not a minority so don't even try to compare yourselves to any.
"Where’s our protection?"
The laws of the land. Same as everyone else. You just want special treatment.
"I’m going to call my congressman tomorrow and say that I want the Christian bashing to stop NOW!"
And chances are you'll be passing that message along to, wait for it, a Christian! Wow. You guys are really oppressed, right? Almost every two bit lawyer, politician and lobbyist is a Christian of some flavor. You guys try almost constantly to get laws passed to give yourselves special rights or privileges or take away rights others already have and prevent them from rights they deserve. And when people don't go along with your bullshit you bitch and whine all the while shouting "persecution!" at the top of your lungs.
Get over yourselves or go start a fucking theocracy somewhere.
