Disgraceful

Published On: May 11, 2010|Categories: MRFF's Inbox|0 Comments|

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A note to: Mr. Michael L. Weinstein,

As a Jew living in America who found peace with God through the Christian faith, I find your hatred of Christianity appalling. You’re a disgrace to the Jewish people, and an affront to God Almighty. I will pray for your salvation.

(name withheld)

Hi, Mr. (name withheld)

Thank you for your note to Mr. Weinstein. I hope he will have time to respond but we all here at MRFF have been very busy of late. We are currently addressing over 17,000 client case complaints from our young men and women in the Armed Forces and service academies who have found themselves subject to coercive and command centered Christian proselytizing. The greater portion of these Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines National Guard, Reserves and Cadets, are non-evangelical Christians who have been told they are not “Christian enough” and must become a more obedient and homogenous military. The purpose of this upgrade is to have the capability of mounting an all-Christian fighting force to deploy and operate weapons of immense destructive power in the pursuit of Christian world domination.
A religious movement known as “Dominion Christianity” appears to be gearing up for Armageddon and believes that world populations must be converted to Christianity or cast into the “Lake of Fire” before Jesus will return.
So you see we do not hate Christians. Many of our number are Christian. We are concerned only with those who have become extreme in their beliefs and threaten not only National, but World peace.
We are happy for you that you have found peace in your conversion to Christianity which was your choice and freely undertaken. Now imagine what it must be liked to be coerced in some manner to accept a brand of religion that you have no desire in which to participate.
The evangelizing undertaken by this movement is at once seditious, pervasive, caustic and threatening.
At MRFF our goal is the freedom of all beliefs in the armed forces, religious or non-religious. Anything short of that is unacceptable and unconstitutional.
Were it your son or daughter who was being mercilessly harassed to change or upgrade his or her religious beliefs against their will, I know you would be the first to intercede.
More information relative to our goals may be obtained on our web site. militaryreligiousfreedom.org.
Thank you again for your note and I hope this response gives you the information you need to become a supporter and not a detractor of MRFF and our mission.

Rick Baker
Regional Coordinator
MRFF

Mr. Rick Baker,

Thank you for your prompt reply. Is this “Dominion Christianity” you’re talking about tied to Hyper-Reform theology?

(name withheld)

Hi, (name withheld)

I have not heard the term Hyper-Reform Theology in connection with Dominion Christianity, although it is possible that it is related.
Christian Dominionism, Dominion Theology and Theonomy are related to Christian Reconstructionism. Rather than try too explain them here may I suggest that you google “Dominion Christianity” and “Christian Reconstructionism.”
If you have access to Pat Robertson’s book, “The Secret Kingdom” it contains pretty much the entire agenda, including abrogating the US Constitution and replacing it with a form of stringent, Mosaic Law, dissolving Congress and the Judiciary and replacing legislators and judges with Christian men in authority. Women would have to once again take a subordinate position to men and could still be stoned to death for adultery. Those not considered “Christian enough” would be denied American citizenship and Homosexuals would be summarily executed.
The military would become a Christian fighting force and employed during Armageddon to fight against the Antichrist, Satan and the False Prophet. They would also be used to mop up any undecided populations who did not convert to Christianity or who failed to be processed during the Rapture. You can find this description in Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind” series of novels. It is interesting to note that Dominionists believe Israel is actually Christian Territory, temporarily assigned to Jews to keep it from falling into the hands of Muslims.
Some sects of Dominionism believe that the US should give money and weaponry to Israel to accommodate such a defense. And in fact, we have, iIncluding nuclear capable weapons. In the end times, Christians would then repossess Israel for Christ and invite the Jews to convert or, sadly, be cast into the “Lake of Fire.”
It’s quite involved and I daresay a bit like a science fiction movie. Unlike some previous resurgence’s of militant religious cults and ministries, Dominionism has captured the imagination of some high echelon military and civilian government operatives who find controlling a large, nuclear armed Christian Force to be very attractive indeed. Manifest Destiny plays a big role as well.
More and more moderate Christians are waking up to this potential threat and are working with organizations such as MRFF; not to curb religious belief or practice but to maintain and protect bona fide religious belief under constitutional provision.

Rick Baker

Rick,
Sounds a bit farfetched. I’ve been a Christian since 1993, and NO CHRISTIAN I know or have ever known believes what you claim the majority of the Christians in the US military believe. Sounds like your group is a bit paranoid.

(name withheld)

Well, thanks for your time.
I would still recommend looking Dominion Christianity up. We often do not want to see the seamy side of our beliefs. It’s much easier to pooh pooh them until it’s to late. It takes real courage to look into our own belief system for flaws. The rise of the Nazi party in Germany was such a stealth activity.
I have seen it first hand. There are a number of e-mails on our web site from such Dominionists. Reading them is a chilling glimpse into the inner works of a truly demented movement.
In any case, we have remained civil. And that’s a good start.
Stay Well.
Rick

Dear (name withheld)
I am glad that you have found peace, but you are a man unaware of his own philosophical contradictions. You were born into a Jewish family then afforded the opportunity to live “secular”, then you were drawn to eastern religions and then orthodox Judaism. Then in 1989 you “seriously began to search for meaning” you had a revelation about Jesus in the Joshua park but still you rejected Jesus turning to a rabbi and the Kabbalah for help… And then after you had an opportunity to search and then search some more… “you”( the singular individual you) Found Jesus…….
You by your own admission searched and searched for meaning … Not wanting to follow what your parents your peers or your spiritual leaders taught you… so you sought out your own answers to the meaning and purpose of our existence. But after you had your chance to seek, your chance at freedom of thought and choice…. you proclaim you are right and all others must follow you…. not their own path to those same questions that you asked.
You know what this means? you are an elitist snob, Yes you are…. stop, think about it before you deny it…. Your position Cyril, is an affront to all people who seek freedom to seek and to define for themselves what “God Almighty”is……
My christian brother your journey has just begun…. admit your error, open your heart and think again, about what you wrote and now try to understand what this organization is really about…… Protecting the individual freedom to seek………. Embrace that Cyril !!
(name withheld)

Dear (name withheld)
Sorry, but no one in the US military is preventing people from seeking; that’s just ridiculous and a result of paranoia.
(name withheld)

Dear (name withheld)
What?? Do you truly perceive of your self as omnipresent? – you “know” that every report that the MRFF has received and documented: of persecution, of oppression, of forced attendance to a particular creed, of taunting, and in some extreme cases of beatings are false? That they are all lies! Just the result of Paranoia? You just somehow know???
How do you spew out these opinions of yours? – You do not actually know the facts in these cases nor do you apparently care to know; Why is that?
Expressing opinion as fact when you know, that you do not acctually know the facts, is the equivalant of “bearing false witness”

You know the reason for this retort of yours, is that it simply that it makes you feel better about your previous error, not that it is based on truth…..
Maybe perhaps you should look inside and think a little about why humility is so important to being Christian …….

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