FEATURED INBOX POST – “And office” (with MRFF response)

Dear Mikey,

I am a Christian,because of a Jew.
How sad to hear that you want to destroy my faith..that gotten me through many trials and gives me hope.
When you are dying, where will you go…Your efforts and name will be forgotten…all that you have accomplished will rust and be destroyed, All you have written Will be forgotten.

It is bitterness in your heart. Too bad..it will eat you up.

One bad experience has brought you the hole in your soul.

I live so close to you in Abq, maybe i will visit to meet you in person.

Just because….I am sorry somebody tried to shove something down your throat.your life changed.

(name withheld)
Best wishes,for I know you will not accept my prayer for you.

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Dear (name withheld),

Mikey has read your email and asked me to respond as he is far to busy with actual accomplishments on behalf of our U.S. Constitution and Service Members to waste time on petulant sniping from the sidelines.

I am a Christian (Episcopalian in fact) who fully supports Mikey’s and MRFF’s attempt to protect members of the U.S. Military from unconstitutional religious influence in relation to their training, assignment, advancement, retention and benefits. 96% of MRFF’s clients are also Christians, who like me, have chosen to fight back against those who profess a Christian faith of dominance through government sanction rather than tolerance by non-interference as envisioned in the Constitution.

Your email is equal parts condescension and passive aggressiveness … how very “Christian” of you. It is your type of disturbing Christian compassion that festoons MRFF’s email inbox like so much flung dung at the Monkey cage.

Although I have a pretty good guess, I would love to know the fetid sources you heard from to make such a asinine statement as “you want to destroy my faith.” Is your faith so ridiculously weak? My belief in Christ and his teachings (i.e. faith) is not so feeble as to make me feel the need to prop up my Christian faith and heritage with government approved crutches as so many have attempted by using government institutions as a vehicle for proselytization. To do so as a patriotic American would be weak willed and would come at the expense of my duty to protect and defend my Constitution and the secular democratic republic it established.

I defend both my Christian faith and my Constitution proudly and equally. I recommend you attempt to do the same.

Peace be with you,
Andy Kasehagen
Albuquerque

p.s. Why would Mikey or anyone need to accept your prayer, no matter how phony and insincere? A prayer is usually (logically) made to a deity which is something we do not aspire to or attempt to speak on behalf of, unlike what you have done in attempting to pass judgment on Mikey and MRFF. Good luck with that approach to your Christian faith.

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Dear, dear (name withheld),

Wherever did you get the idea that we wanted to destroy your faith? Our organization is made up of people of many faiths, and most of them are Christians.

You, my dear lady, appear to have been badly misinformed, or perhaps intentionally misled by someone who wants to take advantage of your Christian commitment. But whatever the case, please feel free to contact us and find out the truth about what we are doing.

It’s wonderful to hear that your faith has gotten you through many trials, as you indicate, and that it gives you hope. You see, our purpose is to support every person’s right to have and enjoy her own belief, to support him in getting through his or her own trials and in having hope.

You are quite right about the damage that is done by having bitterness in one’s heart. That’s why it makes us so sad that someone would tell you lies about us. Imagine the bitterness that must fill the heart of such a person.

So thank you for your prayers. We accept them happily and hope you will come to better understand us and our work. Once you do, I’m sure you’ll be better able to realize that those who tell you lies about us are not your friends.

Blessings.

Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)

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Dear Andy,

Thank YOU for writing me.
It is our Christian duty to evangelize Christianity through words and especially
deeds. Whether in the military or not
I do not want separation of church and state. This country was built on Christian values. George Washinton., Abraham Lincoln. In the military is where we need our faith the most.

My writing to you was not sniping nor asinine…but your response was one of bitter anger… .just because we disagree, I never called you stupid nor asinine.
God did not state in the old testament or the new testament that we should keep our faith out of the military?? This nation started as a Christian nation…and you say that the military is trying to dominate the military with Christian beliefs….My answer. to you is ..God I hope so…for in these scary times..God is needed even more.
But thank you for answering me…for I don’t know all of the bible..but I know we need more Christians standing up for the Faith.

(name withheld)

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Dear (name withheld),

Yes it is the duty of Christians to proselytize. However, in this country it means without government sponsorship or interference. You don’t want separation of Church and State….too bad. The tired mantra that “this country was built on Christian values” is a pathetic attempt to re-write history by those who feel the message of Christ is not sufficiently powerful or persuasive on its own. It’s also dead wrong:

“If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
~George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789

“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”
~George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792

“The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
~1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by John Adams

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
~Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814

“The civil government functions with complete success by the total separation of the Church from the State.”
~James Madison, 1819, Writings, 8:432, quoted from Gene Garman, “Essays In Addition to America’s Real Religion”

“Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.”
~James Madison; Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations, Ecclesiastical
Endowments

“When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, it’s a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”
~Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780

It is painfully obvious that your statement regarding this country being founded on Christian values is as blatantly false as your statement that Mikey/MRFF are trying to destroy your faith.

I will pray for you, as I do all others willing to ignore the principles of our Constitutional heritage and religious freedom, to find the strength and conviction I have found that Christ’s life and teachings carry ample weight and power without government sponsorship.

Peace be with you,

Andy Kasehagen