I honestly wish more open-minded folks had pushed back on my Christian fundamentalism, in a kind way to broaden my perspective. I was raised in an evangelical f

I honestly wish more open-minded folks had pushed back on my Christian fundamentalism, in a kind way to broaden my perspective. I was raised in an evangelical family who believed in the inerrancy of the Bible, a literal hell, and that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, so quite hardcore. I carried most of these beliefs with me, although strangely enough, my dad encouraged reading, logic, and critical thinking. Then I spent years working with refugees, so when evangelical Christians embraced Trump, I was out and deconstructed my fundamentalism. Before that, I took classes at my state university with arch-atheists and worked for companies with Christians, atheists, and agnostics. Never did I face discrimination or harassment. My church was always warning about secular humanist professors trying to destroy young Christian's faith. In reality, people who believed differently shrugged their shoulders and moved on, both in academia and professionally, even while my family was always talking about feeling constrained and censored by their work culture, specifically around LGBTQ+ topics. I now work for a company (and participate in other spaces) that has all the different religions, non-religions, sexualities, nationalities, and genders, even before I left fundamentalism. I never felt "censored" by anyone there. People that where not straight, white, and Christian gave me so much space to learn. They were patient. They took me aside and explained things when I said something stupid. I am humbled by that, and I want to encourage every effort to be more inclusive. Even things lambasted as symbols, tokens, or virtue signaling can instead be more charitably interpreted as trying to show that the person using them is safe, saying to the world, "I am trying to be an ally and making sure that everyone feels welcome." Moving to racism: imagine a society that 50 years ago would hang you in a tree for your skin color. Wouldn't you be a bit jumpy when someone does a micro-aggression? I know I would be on edge. Matthew Shepard was not that long ago. Prop 8 in California was even more recent. This all to say, I would really try to sort out what is religious discrimination and what is trying to create a safe and inclusive workplace. The paradox of tolerance is that you cannot tolerate intolerance. If you believe your religion discriminates against people based on race, gender, sexuality, nationality, or other religions, then yes, you will face discrimination.