Christmas victims?

It's Christmas, which means that the right wing evangelical types are portraying themselves as victims in the "war on Christmas".  So VERY tiresome.  There are countries where Christians are persecuted but this isn't one of them.

But try being an atheist.  From Yahoo News:

GENEVA (Reuters) - Atheists and other religious skeptics suffer persecution or discrimination in many parts of the world and in at least seven nations can be executed if their beliefs become known, according to a report issued on Monday. 

The study, from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), showed that "unbelievers" in Islamic countries face the most severe - sometimes brutal - treatment at the hands of the state and adherents of the official religion. 

But it also points to policies in some European countries and the United States which favor the religious and their organizations and treat atheists and humanists as outsiders.
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While freedom of religion and speech is protected in the United States, the report said, a social and political climate prevails "in which atheists and the non-religious are made to feel like lesser Americans, or non-Americans." 

In at least seven U.S. states, constitutional provisions are in place that bar atheists from public office and one state, Arkansas, has a law that bars an atheist from testifying as a witness at a trial, the report said.

This is not uniform, obviously.  In the culture where i work (academe), it's more challenging to be a church goer than not.  (How's that for irony: I'm an atheist who goes to church).  But our ivory tower is a rarified place, and Out There, the opposite is true.

Do you think it's easier to "come out" as gay, or as a churchgoer?