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This post was created on the previous version of the MRFF website, and may not be fully accessible to users of assistive technology. If you need help accessing this content, please reach out via email.I pray that you repent, your sole purpose is to deny Jesus and promote atheism. Look, we will all stand before Jesus one day, Romans 14:11 says that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord. So you can deny him all you want, it’s your choice, but there is only one truth. Just because you deny him, doesn’t mean anything, you will still answer to him at the end of your life. The chose is yours of how you’d like your eternity: smoking or non-smoking. You’ve been warned, so now you are without the excuse (Romans 1:20).
On May 11, 2021, at 6:58 PM, John Compere wrote:
This will acknowledge receipt of your silly & sanctimonious sectarian sermonette. Your asinine & acrimonious attempt to condemn & categorize a fellow American you do not even know with your vacuous & vengeful version of a deity is as ignorant as it is insolent & as hypocritical as it is hateful. It reflects only on yourself & reveals only the fanaticism of a fool.
Before condemning & judging others, it is recommended you rationally reflect, if you are capable, on the following –“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.” (Matthew 7:1&2). “Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned.” (Luke 6:37). “…you who will pass
judgment on someone else…you are condemning yourself…” (Romans 2:1).
Brigadier General John Compere, US Army (Retired)Disabled American Veteran (Vietnam Era)Board Member, Military Religious Freedom Foundation (composed of 85% Christians)
Dear Mr. (name withheld),
I have to admit that it is hard for me to not laugh at messages such as yours. As a recovering Catholic who made my way through alternative spiritual belief systems to Humanism, I look at all that biblical scholars have shared, and it is clear to me that so many Americans like yourself so purposely refuse to use their own minds; no critical thinkers in your household, eh? Willful ignorance is the standing rule for those who would prefer to remain comfortably sheltered and belligerent rather than enlightened and caring for fellow Americans… especially American VETERANS like Mikey Weinstein who continues to defend Americans in uniform (and other veterans, like me) long after he left the military. See, there’s this belief among many service members and veterans- You can take the soldier/airman/marine/sailor out of the military but you can’t take the military out of the veteran… hence, Mikey and his staff are fighting for those of us who don’t have a voice.
Since you are not able to separate your beliefs from the need for a neutral government and are focused on your doctrine, I’m going to leave you with the Fundamental Tenets of The Satanic Temple (atheists, they don’t believe in deities, but they are VERY principled):
THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS
I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
(name withheld)
Veteran and long time MRFF supporter
Your Incredibly Antisemitic Email to Mr. Weinstein
On May 12, 2021, at 10:07 AM, Ted Furlow wrote:
My dear (name withheld)
As a Christian member of the advisory board for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, I usually read the standard bible screeds sent by folk like you. I was impressed that you used St. Paul’s thoughts in Romans to make your point. Allow me to direct your attention to all of chapter 14. The basis for his writing is to clap back at those who judge others, and that includes you. You are a vegetable eater. Look further at verses 7-10. We live and die not for ourselves, but for the Lord. Christ died and then rose to be the Lord of the living and the dead. All of them.
So, why do you pass judgement on others?
You are supporting the Calvinist shibboleth about Jews killing Jesus. While in fact the Romans killed Jesus as a rebel to keep order, and while it is true that Jews played a role, remember the Jesus was also a Jew. Also remember that as Christians we base our faith in salvation not on Good Friday, but the Easter Sunday that followed. Jesus was destined for the cross as a fulfillment of prophecy and the will of the Father. If there were no resurrection from death, then there would be no victory over death, and no promise of an eternal life without the cross.
As to the kneeling down part, I don’t know, and neither do you. Biblical theology is complex and ought not to be read as a set of rules. Rather it is broad guide to a new life, and to systematize it into a set of orthodox rules and standards, risks making salvation a cheap prize in evangelicalisms Cracker Jacks box.
My Jewish brothers and sisters, righteous and God fearing as I hope to be, are enveloped in the arms of the same common love and forgiveness of God as you and I. I risk including you in my equation even though your faux historical-doctrinal view of the Word is more an extreme Christocentrism than the loving Christ as the Word made flesh.
Stay well, keep reading, and try again….
Ted Furlow
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Advisory Board Member
Wow, I think your “Christian” love speaks for itself, well God bless you. who you were and who you are doesn’t really matter to me, the fact that you cursing and threatening me, thank you. God sees you, I’m not scared of you, I only fear the Lord himself.
It also doesn’t matter that his clients are 95% Christian, it’s like me claiming that I’m a marine without ever been one. Most of Christians nowadays never read the bible and follow Jesus, and neither do you with your hate.
(name withheld)
Response from a MRFF Supporter
My hate? I defended someone that you attacked, a Jew. You called him an atheist, and threaten him with hell by selectively misquoting and misusing Scripture. You showed no love toward Mr. Weinstein, forgetting that the words of Jesus of what the most important commandments are, to Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and to love your Neighbor as yourself. You don’t what to talk about what the Bible says to me, because you seem to be believe and misinterpret the Bible like the Taliban fundamentalist Muslims do with the Koran. Your email was filled with hate.
I have read your recent correspondence to my friend Mikey Weinstein. I am a Christian and believe you totally misunderstand the purpose and mission of the MRFF. You are right that Mikey has the right to not believe in Jesus as you have the right to believe as you want. However there are people who want to “force” Christianity on their military subordinates and that is not what the Constitution says. Mikey is defending those subordinates. Do I wish everyone were a Christian? Yes, no one has the right to force their beliefs on other citizens, military or civilian.
James L. Chamberlain
I want to thank you for the polite email response that I got from you.
I completely agree with you that Christianity should not be forced. On the other hand I believe that it is my duty to stand up for my belief, because if I don’t my rights would be completely whipped out, just look at communist China and Russia. I just see this organization as a way to get rid of Christianity. They want to bring up the whole “Separation of church and state” Well, I actually read the “Separation of church and state” letter and it was written by Thomas Jefferson to Dunburry Baptist church in 1802 pretty much stating that STATE should keep out of church’s business, not the other way around. And another thing is that “Separation of church and state” is no where in the constitution or in any of the amendments.
And another thing is that me, being a Christian, is that I need to tell everyone about Christianity, not force them, but I will be accountable to God if I didn’t tell them. They choose not to believe, that’s up to them, but my hands will be clean of that.
But once again, thank you for a much nicer response.
(name withheld)
Response from MRFF Supporter James Chamberlain
Thank you for your response. The Constitution does not use the exact term “separation of Church and state”. It does say: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”. It does go on to say it will not prohibit anyone’s free exercise of their religion. But that beginning phrase say the government will show no favoritism to any specific religion. The military is a federal agency and therefore should not allow commanders to “force” their subordinates to believe as they do. It is easy to say it is not forced but when the commander issues an “invitation”. Well intentions are misconstrued as an order. This is what the MRFF is trying to prevent.
James L. Chamberlain
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Dear Nameless One–Do you believe your original correspondence with Mr. Weinstein was polite and mature? Do you feel that your words left the space for a polite and adult response from him? If someone were to speak–or write–to your mother in the manner in which you addressed Mr. Weinstein, would you feel she had been treated in a decent way? Would you encourage her to continue the conversation? The polite, mature, decent, respectful street is two-way. To communicate with another adult human is to treat them with the respect you feel you yourself deserve. How does your initial email to Mr. Weinstein measure up?
Got news for you, you will NOT stand before Jesus one day!
Don’t push your inner demons on everyone else! You’re the one that believes in preposterously magical thinking!
It’s people like you that drag human progress down! We would have long since cured cancer and solved the climate change threat were it not for idiots like you holding society back!
Your old white guy in the clouds doesn’t exist!
Get over yourself and start contributing to make this a better world, it’s the only one we have and people like you are doing your damndest to destroy it!
No one really cares where you think you’re going when you die. What is important, however, is the contribution you made while you were here!
You speak like you are assured of your own fate after death. I would assume, given your professed Christianity, that you believe you will find yourself in eternal bliss with your heavenly father.
If it’s so Goddamned good, why not get a headstart on it and go there now?