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Published On: October 24, 2013|Categories: MRFF's Inbox|1 Comment|

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Hear hear. I support the movement to be certain that all religions are respected EQUALLY in our nations military. So please, stop your psychotic, fundamentalist, hypocritical attacks on Christianity or any other religion. Are you so blinded by your own clearly unresolved anger issues that you are unable to see that YOU are attacking one yourself? You cannot shout the principle of equality then turn and utter hate speech singling out one. A principle is something that applies to ALL. Furthermore, how many cadets, government employees, etc are both against Christianity, and offended by this oath? How many people do you think you’re ACTUALLY “helping” by attacking this proud tradition? So ask yourself; take a good long look in the mirror tonight and ask yourself, when I lay on my death bed, did I completely miss the meaning of my life? Did I change the lives of people for the better? Or did I spend an inordinate amount of my short time here only to vaguely affect a couple passing moments in the lives of very few …. Finding things to complain about over and over and over is nothing but a total waste of intellectual existence. Find something worthwhile to stand FOR instead of seeking anything to stand AGAINST.

Signed,
PROUD AIR FORCE MEMBER
Merry Christmas!


Dear Proud Air Force Member

Mr. Weinstein is busy protecting the religious freedom of the members of our armed forces, so I’ll try to respond to your message on his behalf. But I have to say your point here is a bit hard to follow.

We apparently share the belief that all religion beliefs (and I hope I can assume you feel the same about non-belief) deserve to be treated respectfully. Beyond that, your overwrought attempt at psychological analysis mixed with hectoring tends to lose me.

I’m unaware of any hate speech coming from the MRFF. I am very much aware of the strength of the views of Mr. Weinstein and others that a certain sect of Christianity is intent on forcing itself on members of the military in violation of the separation of church and state and must be stopped.

In an attempt to decipher what I can of your message, let me say in answer to what I think is one of your questions that there are thousands of men and women in the military who have asked for our help because they are subject to serious forms of pressure to accept a specific religious view that insists it is the one and only correct version of Christianity. In answer to your follow-up question, we are helping all of them to the degree we can. And, I might add, we would be right in doing so if it was only one member of the military who was being subjected to this forced proselytizing.

For the military, as part of the government, to promote any religious perspective is a violation of the above-mentioned separation. That being so, those in charge must be scrupulous in their charge, must be thoughtful and respectful of all belief systems, and must carefully avoid the promotion of any one of them.

So, to avoid commenting on your rather cute death-bed recapitulation idea, let me only say that the MRFF stands for freedom of religion for all who choose a religious belief and freedom of thought (or, if you will, freedom from religion) for those who choose another path. But in honoring the right of those who choose not to join the sect currently asserting itself we must also insist that those who choose to path of no faith or belief system must also be respected. Therefore, your long-held and perhaps personally sacred traditions may be honored privately, but cannot be propagated by the institution.

Best,

Mike Farrell

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  1. American October 24, 2013 at 11:55 am

    loser

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