Yes, that’s a lovely sentiment and in my personal life I’m an adherent.
Unfortunately, at work pushing back can rile up a customer, which has the potential to get me fired. It grates on my that I am surrendering to this assumption and proselytizing in order to keep my paycheck coming, but unfortunately that is what I am forced to do in order to survive in a Christian-dominated country and even more so in Red state knee-deep in evangelicals.
OK. Soon as you can show me how I can continue to pay my bills while doing that. I am low down on the social totem, pushing back is likely to get me stomped on.
Where I live anything not openly supportive of Christianity is often interpreted as “in your face-ism”. I was once screamed at by a customer who was upset because I didn’t wish the customer ahead of him an explicit “Merry Christmas”. The person ahead of him was a woman in a Muslim garb, not just the head scarf but the black outer robe as well. Pretty sure she didn’t celebrate Christmas and she didn’t object to my “Have a nice day” - but the asshole behind her sure did.
I really hate working retail during the Christian holidays.