The
group American Atheists is planning to erect 50 monuments on public
sites around the country where the Ten Commandments stand alone. A
quote from a member of the organization puts their perspective into
hierarchical terms:
“True
equality means all or none,” said Ken Loukinen, a retired firefighter
in Florida who volunteers as director of state and regional operations
for American Atheists. “Christianity has had an unfair privilege for at
least the last 150 years. We want to level the playing field by
stripping them of privilege, and bringing them to equality with all
other ideologies.”
Christianity does not have to put itself on top of a
hierarchy claiming to be "the only" religion. But unfortunately in our country, many people also use the "superiority" of Christianity as an excuse to build hierarchies based on additional factors besides religion.
