Why are you so hateful?

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 Response by MRFF Advisory Board Member Mike Farrell

Hi (name withheld),

May I assume “crossboaster” means what it suggests? If so, you might want to reconsider your
slimy antisemitism. After all Jesus was a Jew. Or didn’t you know that?

You apparently don’t fully comprehend the issue about which you chose to launch your small-minded attack.

No one here cares what religion the surgeon in question identifies with. What is objectionable is that
he used a form of emotional coercion to dragoon a family that was deeply concerned about the
danger facing their loved one at the moment into joining him in a religious act that had nothing to do
with the medical task he was about to perform. If he believed in praying for God’s help before he does
a surgery, that’s fine. He has every right to pray. What he does not have the right to do is put a
terrified family in the position of feeling that they are required to join him in prayer, with the unstated
but clearly intended inference that if they don’t do so things may not go as they would hope.

Though you may, given your tunnel vision, have missed noting it, the family in question is Christian.
But they are Christian in the true sense, the kind that understands that garish public displays of religiosity
offended Jesus. They also understood that if this surgeon put a family that was not Christian in the position
he put them it would have been not only humiliating but deeply wounding no matter what their belief.

So a surgeon who may himself be a “crossboaster” acted in an inappropriate, offensive and utterly
unnecessary manner, just as you have in writing this stupid and unChristian attack on someone you
don’t know. And you, having chosen to double down on his graceless act, have sullied the name of
Jesus by acting in a manner that brings shame to his name.

Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)

When I read hateful emails like this one, I sometimes find it hard to believe those who write them have any idea how Jesus lived, and what he preached and stood for. It is truly appalling these people call themselves Christians, and what is even worse is that many of our fellow Americans consider them, and their views, to be the true representatives of our faith. Keep up the good work