From a reader in Brooklyn, NY:

Tim Hendel's description of a supposedly Christian fundamentalist repressive regime in April's Readers' Forum sounded very familiar-- people losing their jobs because of their beliefs, inability to choose where you wish to live, etc. Those were the signs of the real--not imaginary--repressive regime that ruled the former Soviet Union, where I grew up. But was that regime formed by Christian fundamentalists? Quite to the contrary, it was based on militant atheism. In general, I don't know any modern-day Christian dictatorship. And in the United States in 2007, it is the militant and aggressive atheists, not the Christians, who threaten to ruin a person's career for a public prayer, for professing religious beliefs, or simply for saying "Merry Christmas." How many words in the English language were recently blacklisted by the so-called "politically correct" for "conveying a religious message"? For the record: I am not a Christian. But I refuse to join the militant crowd who will go to any extreme to remove any mention of God from the Pledge of Allegiance. I refuse to mock people's beliefs simply because I don't share them, and I refuse to dub each and every Christian as a fundamentalist.