To Mikey Weinstein

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To Mikey Weinstein

Regarding Whiteboards at our US Air Force Academy:

You will not whitewash the U.S. Constitution with eliminating Bible verses from whiteboards. You will not make us a generic, even-steven society. You will not take away our freedoms, our thoughts, our heritage or our preservation! You will not prevail!

Your organization’s Mission Statement is very misleading and very twisted. YOU? are defending the religious liberty rights of the men and women serving our country in the armed forces?? You are doing the exact opposite! Why are you not defending the Christians’ rights in the military? How dare you misinterpret ‘proselytizing’ as ‘forcing’ people to accept Christianity. Christianity is a beautiful, powerful message. It never hurt anyone. The choice is up to the individual. It does not force itself upon the individual as you do. The Word is spoken or read, it touches the heart, people make up their minds. Very simple.
Our Founding Fathers were all Christians, not to mention the vast majority of leaders and military until recently. There were no atheists then. Biblical foundations and honoring God and Israel, the apple of His eye, have made our nation a success. Not courtroom decisions by liberal judges. Lately our nation has been on the wane for Not honoring God, Israel and Biblical foundations.

You do not rule. The People do and you cannot minimally legislate God! Eisenhower would turn over in his grave at what you’re doing. God was in on the founding of this country. He orchestrated a Jew to donate money to the cause. I don’t think He will tolerate your mocking Him much longer. God will not be mocked! He said so himself in the Bible, the world’s #1 best seller.

Watch yourself! The People are watching you! We all know that the phrase, ‘Separation of Church and State’ is not in the Constitution. It is part of 7 words in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Baptist leaders about keeping the government off the neck of the church; not your twisted interpretation. Judge Black used this phrase in 1947 in a decision that others subsequently copied without doing the research.

I suggest you read the book, ‘Psalm 91 Real-Life Stories of God’s Shield of Protection and What This Psalm Means for You and Those You Love,” by Peggy Joyce Ruth and Angela Ruth Schum.

Read the actual real-life, true, factual, miraculous testimonies of what God can do for soldiers and this country that you cannot and never will do! Like being supernaturally shielded from bullets! And this is only one book out there where there are plenty of others. Maybe you will become a real American after you read it because right now, sir, you are not acting like an American or a patriot at all!

ANYTHING can go on those whiteboards!! Philosophies, cartoons, Yiddish, math, Bible verses and even Koran verses. You may not exclude the Bible verses or anything relating to Christianity! Again, You may not exclude the Bible verses or anything relating to Christianity! It’s the First Amendment! Read it! Live with it! The rest of us do! Just because there are more Christians than you’d like to see does not mean God’s hand is not in it! If you don’t like it, why don’t you leave this country & go to one like the old USSR with its atheistic KGB? Or better yet, China! You’d fit in with their censoring just fine. Only you will not succeed with it here in the U.S.

You will not create or enforce your type of thought police here in our military or nation! Not anymore! You don’t belong here or in a position of national authority if you cannot tolerate a miraculous God or free speech without qualifying it! You will not continue to negatively legislate God. The pendulum is swinging back to normalcy: People not afraid to brag on or call on the incredible God.

If someone wants to tell me about their faith, whatever it is, I can listen to it. But I am not forced to believe it. I, in turn, can tell them what I believe and tell them my own miracles I have received. (Like supernatural dissolution of a tumor.) I am my own human being to decide what I believe. Why does that threaten you? It is God’s WORD that transforms the heart. The individual sharing the Word doesn’t do the transforming. God’s Word never hurt anyone! It heals, it delivers! Maybe you don’t like it because you can’t control it’s wonderful, powerful, positive effects.

By the way, it takes more faith to believe in atheism than any religion. Just look around you and see what God has created. They can’t believe He did it.

Know your enemy. Read the book. You will not prevail. God is bigger than you or your organization.

Most sincerely,
(name withheld)
My Father & Grandfather proudly served and were trained in the Army Airforce. They were permitted to openly pray from, display and read their Bibles and it didn’t hurt our country or their fellow military one bit. They both returned from war alive (even with my dad’s broken neck); something you will not allow to happen to our young military if they cannot display, pray or read their Psalm 91 aloud.

Air Force Academy wipes away cadet’s Bible verse 03-11-14


Dear (name withheld),

Mikey has read your email and asked me to respond.

The first thing I need to clear up to you is that we are neither anti-God nor anti-Christian. Mikey is Jewish and prays 3 times a day to the same Father we do. A full 75% or more of the Board, Advisory Board, volunteers and supporters with the MRFF are Christian. Out of our 36,000+ military clients (1 can represent 50 and 1 does represents 100) are Christian. If anything, we represent Christians more than any other religion but you won’t hear about it because that wouldn’t make a Christian angry against us.

We DO NOT act on our own but on the complaints of soldiers who contact us because their chain of command has failed them under the Constitution.

The religion of the majority in our military does not rule over other religions or those of no religious preference, under the Constitution:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment (Establishment Clause) of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise (Free Exercise Clause) thereof . . . “(1st Amendment)

The Establishment Clause comes before the Free Exercise Clause for a reason; the Free Exercise Clause is subservient to the Establishment Clause – not the other way around as some Christians would like it to be.

The Supreme Court heard the Lemon v. Kurtzman case in 1971 and ruled in favor of the Establishment Clause.

Subsequent to this decision, the Supreme Court has applied a three-pronged test to determine whether government action comports with the Establishment Clause, known as the “Lemon Test”

Lemon Test:

1. Any law or policy must have been adopted with a neutral or non-religious purpose.

2. The principle or primary effect of any law or policy must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion.

3. The statute or policy must not result in an “excessive entanglement” of government with religion.

If any government entity’s actions fit into one of these three, then it is a violation of the Establishment Clause.

The Air Force has strict rules on religious neutrality. This is binding on everyone at the academy.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE

Air Force Instruction 1-1

7 August 2012

2.11. Government Neutrality Regarding Religion. Leaders at all levels must balance constitutional protections for an individual’s free exercise of religion or other personal beliefs and the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion. For example, they must avoid the actual or apparent use of their position to promote their personal religious beliefs to their subordinates or to extend preferential treatment for any religion. Commanders or supervisors who engage in such behavior may cause members to doubt their impartiality and objectivity. The potential result is a degradation of the unit’s morale, good order, and discipline. Airmen, especially commanders and supervisors, must ensure that in exercising their right of religious free expression, they do not degrade morale, good order, and discipline in the Air Force or degrade the trust and confidence that the public has in the United States Air Force.

The Cadets can write anything they want in their rooms but they cannot do it in a secular area – including hallways. If the Air Force thought it was ok to write scripture on a whiteboard in the hallway, then why did they have it taken down? They knew it was a clear violation of AFI 1-1, that’s why.

Are you a David Barton follower or do you get your information from another history revisionist? You sure sound like it.

You wrote:

Our Founding Fathers were all Christians, not to mention the vast majority of leaders and military until recently. There were no atheists then.

The history of Christianity trying to force its beliefs in America fills volumes of books and is too long to get into here. Suffice it to say that it was an abysmal failure in making the Colonies a Theocracy. One sect of Christianity was murdering another sect. The Salem Witch Trials, caused by mass hysteria and lies, was the death knell of any attempt to force Christianity on the nation.

“More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered.” George Lincoln Burr (January 30, 1857 – 1938) Professor of History and Librarian at Cornell University

Our Constitution was written explicitly to base America on secular rule free from religious tyranny.

The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, ratified June 21, 1788 and went into effect on March 4, 1789.

As for the separation of Church and State not existing in the Constitution, the words may not exist, but the idea is there and those words were used by some of the founding fathers.

The Treaty of Tripoli was signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796.It was submitted to the Senate by President John Adams, receiving ratification unanimously from the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797, and signed by Adams, taking effect as the law of the land on June 10, 1797; a mere 8 years since our Constitution went into effect. If what was written was wrong in anyway, there would have been uproar. But, it passed unanimously and confirmed that America was not founded on Christianity.

Treaty of Tripoli:

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

If what was written here was wrong in anyway, there would have been uproar. But, it passed unanimously and confirmed that America was not founded on Christianity.

Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity; the less they are mixed together. – James Madison Letter to Edward Livingston (1822-07-10)

“Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in nowise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.” Thomas Jefferson – Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.” James Madison

“A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source.” Federalist Papers #10

“Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person’s life, freedom of religion affects every individual. Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the “wall of separation between church and state,” therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.” Thomas Jefferson, to the Virginia Baptists (1808) ME 16:320.

This is his second known use of the term “wall of separation,” here quoting his own use in the Danbury Baptist letter.

This wording of the original was several times upheld by the Supreme Court as an accurate description of the Establishment Clause.

“Jefferson’s concept of “separation of church and state” first became a part of Establishment Clause jurisprudence in Reynolds v. U.S., 98 U.S. 145 (1878). In that case, the court examined the history of religious liberty in the US, determining that while the constitution guarantees religious freedom, “The word ‘religion’ is not defined in the Constitution. We must go elsewhere, therefore, to ascertain its meaning and nowhere more appropriately, we think, than to the history of the times in the midst of which the provision was adopted.” The court found that the leaders in advocating and formulating the constitutional guarantee of religious liberty were James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Quoting the “separation” paragraph from Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, the court concluded that, “coming as this does from an acknowledged leader of the advocates of the measure, it may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the amendment thus secured.”

“A few Christian fundamentalists attempt to convince us to return to the Christianity of early America, yet according to the historian, Robert T. Handy, “No more than 10 percent– probably less– of Americans in 1800 were members of congregations.”

“The Founding Fathers, also, rarely practiced Christian orthodoxy. Although they supported the free exercise of any religion, they understood the dangers of religion. Most of them believed in deism and attended Freemasonry lodges. According to John J. Robinson, “Freemasonry had been a powerful force for religious freedom.” Freemasons took seriously the principle that men should worship according to their own conscience. Masonry welcomed anyone from any religion or non-religion, as long as they believed in a Supreme Being. Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Hamilton, Lafayette, and many others accepted Freemasonry.

The Constitution reflects our founder’s views of a secular government, protecting the freedom of any belief or unbelief. The historian, Robert Middlekauff, observed, “the idea that the Constitution expressed a moral view seems absurd. There were no genuine evangelicals in the Convention, and there were no heated declarations of Christian piety.”

Here are some quotes by our founding fathers:

“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.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789

“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”
~John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” 1787-1788

“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: in letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814,
“The civil government functions with complete success by the total separation of the Church from the State.”
~Founding Father James Madison, 1819, Writings, 8:432, quoted from Gene Garman, “Essays In Addition to America’s Real Religion”

“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
~Founding Father James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822

“Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.”
~Founding Father James Madison, letter, 1822

“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.”~Founding Father James Madison; Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations, Ecclesiastical Endowments

“God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government.”
~Founding Father Isaac Backus, An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, 1773

“Question with boldness even the existence of a god.”

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787

“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”

“What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not.”

James Madison 1785 Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments

“Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting “Jesus Christ,” so that it would read “A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.” Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

You wrote:

“God was in on the founding of this country.”

Really? Well, this country was “founded” from sea to shining sea long before the Europeans set foot on this country.

I think it is YOU that needs to do some real research on the history of this country because your ignorance is astounding.

Pastor Joan

MRFF Advisory Board Member

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