I don’t like how your stupid Jewish dickhead leader name mikey Weinstein be insulting my Christian faith and especially our Christian catholic soldiers of the U.S army and your organization is anti-Christian and ya guys never talk on how cruel Islam is to Christians in the Middle East and ya Jews are a cancer to the world and your puppets ( black People) believe all of the lies ya be saying about Christianity
(name withheld)
Response by MRFF Advisory Board Member John Compere
Dear (name withheld),
I don’t know where you get your information but wherever you get it it is full of lies, omissions and distortions.
What they fail to tell you is that not all Christians are treated equally in the military. Instead, they make it seem as if all Christians are being persecuted to further an agenda that does not include your faith.
US Army chaplain MAJ James Linzey, who, in a 1999 video spoke the following:
“Remember, the demons believe in Jesus Christ. They believe in the truth — see that’s Jesus Christ — and they tremble. And so the demons inside these greedy world bankers are trembling that Americans would come to find the truth about what they’re all about. They are as scared as little tiny mice running up and down the curtains in the cathedrals. Now, they’re in the cathedrals. They’re in the churches. They’re controlling pulpits. That’s how mainstream Protestantism has declined. Because they invaded the churches, and the mainstream Protestant churches stopped hearing the truth. So they want to squelch the truth by taking over the church. Now, this is not in my notes, but I was inspired by God because these are demonic, dastardly creatures from the pit of hell, and we need to stomp them out.”
Contrary to what you may have been told we are neither an atheist organization nor are we anti-Christian. Mikey is Jewish (and prays to the same Father we do 3 times a day) and 80% of the Board, Advisory Board, volunteers and supporters (300 in total) of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) are Christians. In fact, 96% of our 50,200+ soldier clients are mainline Christians and we fight for them more than any other belief or non-belief.
We are not trying to rid our military of Christianity. What we are trying to stop is an extreme form of Christianity that believes they are the only true form of it and all other mainline Christians are not the “right kind” or “born-again” and are going to hell. They are attempting to turn our soldiers into “Warriors for Christ” and that every war is a “Crusade.”
This includes you going to hell as a mainline Catholic.
The fundamental, Dominionist Puritans died out centuries ago but fast forward to today and we see this same type of thinking by the “born-again” sect of Christianity. The Puritans have been resurrected in our military! This extreme form of Dominionist/Fundamental/Evangelical Christianity is relentless in its in-your-face religious proselytizing to other soldiers by the military personnel all the way up to the Commander. They have usurped the office of the Chaplains. They have harassed, beaten, withheld advancements and drummed soldiers out of the military on trumped up charges, all in the name of Jesus. They believe in cleansing the military of all of those who do not believe in the sect they do.
As stated above – 96% of our 50,200+ clients are mainline Christians who are suffering at the hands of these modern day Puritans. We are an agent in holding our military to the Constitution and the Military Code of Justice and stopping our military bases from being turned into a church that practices only one sect of Christianity.
Our name reflects our mission: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
We are defenders of the Constitution (Separation of Church and State), Supreme Court rulings and the UCMJ.
“…but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” (Article I, III)
This means that from the President to Congress to the military – no one’s job is based on their religion.
religion.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (Establishment Clause), or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (Free Exercise Clause).”(First Amendment)
The Establishment Clause means that you cannot favor one religion over another even though it is in the majority. This clause respects the RIGHTS of all religions. Our military is SECULAR and there are people of other faiths that don the uniform that love this country.
The Free Exercise Clause (which is subservient to the Establishment Clause) means that our soldiers are free to exercise any religion they want or no religion at all but cannot elevate one God above others.
“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.
In 1878 “separation of church and state” became part of the Establishment Clause by law.
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:
Government action violates the Establishment Clause unless it:
1. has a significant secular (i.e., non-religious) purpose,
2. does not have the primary effect of advancing or inhibiting religion
3. does not foster excessive entanglement between government and religion
Parker v. Levy.
“This Court has long recognized that the military is, by necessity, a specialized society separate from civilian society… While the members of the military are not excluded from the protection granted by the First Amendment, the different character of the military community and of the military mission requires a different application of those protections. … The fundamental necessity for obedience, and the consequent necessity for imposition of discipline, may render permissible within the military that which would be constitutionally impermissible outside it… Speech [in any form] that is protected in the civil population may nonetheless undermine the effectiveness of response to command. If it does, it is constitutionally unprotected.” (Emphasis added) Parker v. Levy, 417 U.S. 733, 1974
To entangle the military with religion is a violation of the Constitution, Reynolds v. U.S., Lemon v. Kurtzman, the Lemon Test and Parker v. Levy.
The above laws are deliberately ignored and omitted from any correspondence in order to ask for donations to fight against us.
We are being falsely used and accused and so is anyone who believes the lies they read in order to line their own pockets.
If – and I mean if – you get your information from Jay Sekulow, you should be aware of what he does with donations.
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow directed millions from Christian nonprofit to …
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Trump lawyer’s firm steered millions in donations to family members …
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We do not use our donations for personal gain but to keep MRFF afloat. I fact most of us are volunteers.
I hope this clears up any misinformation you might have heard. For more information please visit our website – www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org – click on “About” and go to “Foundation Voices.” I think you will be surprised to see a former Ambassador, 2 Governors, a Noble Peace Prize winner, religious leaders, distinguished military personnel all the way up to a Brigadier General and those of other walks of life.
Also check out our Mission: https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/about/our-mission/
We have also been nominated 5 times for the Noble Peace Prize.
And Mikey has been chosen as one of the 100 Most Influential People by the Department of Defense. http://special.defensenews.com/people/short-list.php
As a Christian, you should know that you will be held accountable for attacking Mikey’s Jewishness.
“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 12:3
You have also denigrated black people.
“For God so loved the world…” John 3:16
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Mark 12:30-31
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” Matthew 12:36-37
Remember, Jesus was born, raised, preached and died a Jew and He will hold you accountable for what you wrote here.
You should have researched us before you sent this email instead of having blind faith in lies told against us for monetary gain.
Joan Slish
MRFF Advisory Board Member
Dear Joan,
Good Day, (name withheld) –
Do you really exist?
Reading this message makes it clear that you’re actually part of a conspiracy against Christianity. You’re one of a group of low-lifes who hate Jesus and think his followers are idiots and are trying to destroy them by painting them as ignorant, narrow-minded, semi-literate bigots, anti-Semites and racists.
I think it’s a nefarious scheme that is absurd on its face because everyone knows that real Christians, true followers of Jesus, are kind, thoughtful, non-judgmental, merciful and loving people who would never be capable of the bilious garbage you’ve trundled out here.
I will admit it’s a somewhat clever scheme, if fiendish and repulsive, but it won’t work, Omar, or whatever your real name is. Too many people know what true Christianity is and they won’t be fooled by someone making such a pathetic and obviously false attempt to undermine it.
Nice try, whoever-you-are, but you don’t pass the smell test. You REALLY don’t pass the smell test. I’d suggest a shower, a purge, and maybe an enema. Then perhaps, once you’ve at least attempted to clean yourself out, try to find an honest pursuit.
Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)
“I don’t like how your stupid Jewish dickhead leader name mikey Weinstein be insulting my Christian faith and especially our Christian catholic soldiers of the U.S army and your organization is anti-Christian and ya guys never talk on how cruel Islam is to Christians in the Middle East and ya Jews are a cancer to the world and your puppets ( black People) believe all of the lies ya be saying about Christianity.”
Amazing how some Christians still believe that Jews are cancer or trying to take over the world. That person doesn’t need Jews, Muslims or other groups to insult Christians when the Christians do an excellent job of insulting themselves. Finally, the person forgot how cruel Christians are throughout the centuries.
Dear Joan, if you have Ashkenazi Jewish blood in you then you are not Christian, you are a Messianic Jew then if you have truly accepted Christ as your personal Lord and Savior!
JR, the Nazis would not care less about who is an Askenazi Jew and a Messianic Jew. The Jews would still get scapegoated whether they were Askenazi, Messianic, Orthodox, Reformed, etc.