We're all second-class citizens.
Atheists, intellectuals, feminists, homosexuals, and many more have been ostracized over many years. Hell, Daddy Bush even said that atheists shouldn't be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. (Anybody ever heard of Thomas Paine? Guess he's not a patriot now.) The masses resent us because we are more socially advanced than they. We are the harbringers of change, of cultural revolution. We cry in the streats about the advent of a better world and the people hate us for it. They would rather save the better life for when they're dead and in "heaven."
In return, we refuse to give up our lives for them. We find any reason to thwart the desires of those who despise us as a subtle act of retribution. We take their pagan idols off government property and mention of their omnipotent patron out of our pledges. We strike their blasphemies from our currency and take their profane Bibles out of our court oaths. We spit upon the Christian masses. Not that any of their actions really offends us. No, it's those that support these acts that offend us. they think that they deserve the special considerations they get. What really offends us, though, is when we are labeled deviant for not falling in line with the Moral Majority. We become second rate citizens and must start fighting back. Thus we would much rather fight Bush and his legions of slavering zealots in the courtroom than fool with Saddam and his mob of starving Iraqis on the battlefield.
