BUG OFF ABOUT CHRISTIANITY!

Dear Mikey,

Why don’t you people figure out a way to actually do some GOOD for our military members? I think I know why: because you’re just another cell of radical agitators who – relying on some fantastical notion that, buried somewhere in our nation’s legal tradition, there exists a right never to be offended, ever – get your jollies by running around trying to tell the majority of Americans what they can and cannot do in public…and now, thanks to the ever-metastasizing ultra-corrupt culture-destruction machinery being institutionalized by your fellow-travelers in the out-of-control Leftist federal government currently holding power in D.C., you’ve figured out a way to profit from it.

It is always helpful when reacting to the absurd attacks staged on ALL things openly Christian by the ACLU and other hyper-radical outfits like yours to remind you that one never sees this kind of campaign waged against the MUSLIMS – because you know that if you were to do so, you’d have a much harder time sleeping soundly for fear of the Islamist militants heading toward your homes with the purpose of committing murder and mayhem upon your persons and those of your families…no, people like you will ever take the gutless path of making war on peaceful Christianity, because you are just that: gutless.

If you don’t like open displays of Christian religiosity, LOOK AWAY. Like it or don’t, this nation was founded BY CHRISTIANS – not by Buddhists, Taoists or Muslims – and certainly not by atheists – UNDER GOD. Your idiotic campaign to expunge all signs of God from public view is offensive to YOUR CREATOR and – just you wait – you will not be rewarded for this assault on the Almighty Geometer of the Universe. Be warned!

(name withheld)

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Dear (name withheld),

I thought here about opening with an egghead joke, but it’s too easy and you’ve certainly heard ’em all.

Thanks for being straightforward in your attack on the MRFF by admitting up front that you’ve got your knickers in an uproar because you are incensed at what you think are our politics. You see us as “fellow-travelers in the out-of-control Leftist federal government,” etc., and therefore a subversive force. I’m sure Mr. Weinstein chuckles when he reads these attacks and thinks back to the days when he was part of the legal counsel to the Reagan Administration. Fact is, you couldn’t be more wrong.

To answer your initial question, we think we are doing a lot of good for your “military members.” The thousands of them who have come to the MRFF for help when some superior uses his or her rank to promote a specific religious view in contradiction of the U.S. Constitution think so too.

Contrary to your assertion that we are “radical agitators… running around trying to tell the majority of Americans what they can and cannot do in public,” the fact is we are simply upholding the Constitutional protection of freedom of religion and belief guaranteed every American. Specifically, we’re making sure it is not stripped from the members of our armed forces by superiors with a religious agenda. And that’s all.

So you see, we don’t care what you do in public. You can make as big a fool of yourself as you choose by ranting about radicals and the ACLU and attacks on Christians. You can make your assertions about Islamic radicals and do all the other things people of your particular view love to wallow in. But you are simply wrong in applying them to the MRFF.

Now, rather than waste my time countering your silly charges, let me only note that you call yourself a “faithful Catholic Christian.” That being the case, it might interest you to know that many of the Catholic members and supporters of the MRFF have come to us because their fundamentalist Christian superiors, sometimes known as Dominionists, are attempting to force their view onto them and don’t consider Catholicism a true religion.

Theirs is kind of what Pope Francis was talking about, don’t you think, when he said “faith passes through a distiller and becomes ideology”? He said “ideology does not beckon” the people. “In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of every sign: rigid.”

He went on: “And when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith; he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought… For this reason Jesus said to them: ‘You have taken away the key of knowledge.’ The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.”

“The faith becomes ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people.”

“But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?”

He said Christian ideology was the result of a lack of true prayer.

But I’m sure as a ‘faithful Catholic Christian,’ you’re aware of all that.

Rigidity. Ideology. Good stuff to avoid.

Best,

Mike Farrell