Edited sentence: Critics also point out that many Christian-inspired laws remain on the books in many localities, such as blue laws, as do the words "One Nation Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, and "In God We Trust" on US money, both mandated well after the early 1900s.Some Christains even mistakingly view the separation of church and state as a violation of their constitutional First Amendment rights.They point out that many times, so-called cases of discrimination are actually just acts of impartiality or fairness, and that what the complaining Christians really object to is not being able to retain their coercion over others, such as mandating school prayer, public Christmas celebrations, etc.While hardly anyone disputes that genuine persecution of Christians exists in many Islamist and Marxist Communist states, many people find it absurd that those of the Christian faith, in the most conservative Christian country in the world (the United States), could genuinely be routinely mistreated