text: Let me help your understanding.  I'll use a different concept that you might understand.  You don't teach algebra to a first grader.  You teach math in steps.  The war on Christianity is a small step and what happened in Germany in WWII is algebra.  That's what I meant by degrees.  Our Constitution, with its guarantees, is the only thing to keep us from becoming Germany in the thirties.  Freedom of religion is under attack and accusing me of bearing false witness is a distraction from the heart of the discussion.