Dear Mikey:
As one with some acquaintance with the theological and philosophical underpinnings of Islam, I assure you it is an evil religion.
It’s simply (as C. S. Lewis observed) the greatest heresy of Judeo-Christianity. If you truly believe what you assert in the motto that, for American servicemen, ”there is only one religious scripture: the American Constitution,” you will acknowledge the appropriateness of Rev. Graham’s acknowledgement of that fact. If the Constitution had been written by Muslims, it would look very different and exclude such niceities as the First Amendment.
My first impression is that your group has a very distorted idea of the nature of religion itself. To claim that, as servicemen, we lay down our beliefs and our ultimate loyalty to God above loyalty to the human covenant reveals the profoundest ignorance of both the philosophical and historical origins of our founding documents. The very idea of cutting a covenant as the basis of a government comes from the Bible. But of course the very perception that there were injustices in the British system came from the universal Natural Law tradition enshrined in all religions.
You might want to check out the primary sources at Wallbuilders.com or the writings of the Founding Fathers in the Federal Document Repository at your local library.
(name withheld)
