Somehow, This Is NOT About Christianity
Well, St. Paul, one-half of the Twin Cities has gotten into the fray this Easter with this:

The day after the Easter Bunny got the boot at St. Paul City Hall, there was enough tsk-tsking on public airways, in skyways and among city workers to send Peter Cottontail hoppin' back down the bunny trail.

"I didn't kill Easter," Terrill said. "If I'm a Muslim, or I'm a Jew, I don't want to look at that."

Gary at Country Keepers had this to say:

If you really think about it, this display should have been more likely to offend Christians - people who really are committed to following Jesus Christ and not just those who call themselves Christian. But that isn’t the case.

This on the same day that the Christian Peace Team in Baghdad was freed and the Condee Rice was working for a resolution to the death penalty of the Afghan Christian convert from Islam. If we Christians in the United States think we are facing persecution, we need to wake up and see that what we are supposedly being discriminated against in many instances is not what it's all about.

Easter Bunnies, Easter Eggs, Wal-Mart greeters saying "Happy Holidays?"

Let's get serious. As Gary implied, these persecutions are not! They are culture wars, perhaps. But even at that, they do not in any way shape or form, in my humble opinion, persecutions. Would I be willing to stand firm in my conversion like the man in Afghanistan in the face of the death penalty? I can't even begin to wrap my mind around such a thought and I, myself, converted to Christianity from Judaism 40+ years ago. I can't wrap my mind around it because I have always lived in the US where religious freedom and diversity is a reality. I don't know how to even begin to think in terms of real persecution.

For that, of course, I am extremely grateful to God that I was blessed to be born here. But that is not where my ultimate freedom comes. That freedom is and always will be in Christ. May I never forget that.