Fabulous Responses to Detractor from MRFF Board Member John Compere and MRFF Advisory Board Member James T. Currie “Merry Christmas”

Published On: December 24, 2024|Categories: MRFF's Inbox, Top News|3 Comments|
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From: (Name withheld)
Subject: Merry Christmas
Date: December 24, 2024 at 10:51:44 AM MST
To: [email protected]

Counselor Weinstein,

I hope 2025 is a good year for you and your family. I will pray that the Lord through His Holy Spirit convicts you and saves you from the punishment you face if you continue to attack God to His face.

You may profess to not believe Him as many do but you know the terror of the certainty of mortality in this world. Better to surrender than to be cast into Hell for eternity. It is a loving thing to warn someone before they go over a cliff that’s exactly what real Christians should be doing for people like you. Just like you, we are wretched sinners deserving of the same fate.

I also find your view of the country fundamentally flawed since the dis establishment clause as you know, it was popularized in the 1940s by rogue justices. The founders clearly intended this nation to be based upon the principles of Christendom can you explain Moses on the rotunda of the Supreme Court? The original moral law is written in your heart and you know you’re guilty as am I. Saul of Tarsis was learned in all aspects of Jewish law and customs even he was spared and chosen by God.

Those professing to be Christians if they truly were, should not be smearing feces on your mailbox or hateful letters or threats. Likewise, those supporting your cause are apart from Christ, and are not counted amongst us.

In conclusion, I do pray for your salvation or that at least members of your family should come to no Christ and be saved. Review what happened to the sons of Kora.

May God continue to have mercy upon you and bring you to salvation.


Response from MRFF Advisory Board Member John Compere:

This will acknowledge receipt of your specious, sanctimonious and sectarian sermonizing which reflects only on yourself.

Your judgmental condemnation of the Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Mikey Weinstein, a fellow American you do not even know, reveals your own ignorance or rejection of Christian scripture regarding the judging of others. For example –

“Be careful not to practice your righteous in front of others in order to be seen. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1)

“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 pass judgment on someone else…you are condemning yourself…” (Romans 2:1)

Your self-righteous condemnation of those supporting The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reveals your ignorance of the foundation and its purpose. It is a non-profit civil rights advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the religious freedom of military personnel, present and past. We are composed of 900 volunteer and paid staff (85% Christians) and have represented over 91,000 military men and women (95% Christians) who requested their right to religious freedom guaranteed them under the United States Constitution be protected. For that advocacy, we have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 7 times. We represent the religious freedom of all faiths and beliefs of military members when requested to do so by them. Be assured we will continue to serve them with persistence and patriotism.

Your ignorance of the secular founding of the United States of America is remarkable given its thorough historical documentation. For your enlightenment, attached is my article on the United States Constitution including our secular founding which was published by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation on its website (militaryreligiousfreedom.org).

John Compere
Brigadier General, US Army (Retired)
Disabled American Veteran (Vietnam Era)
Board Member, Military Religious Freedom Foundation


Response from MRFF Advisory Board Member James T. Currie

Dear Mr. (name withhheld):

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has asked me to respond to your recent email.

First of all, both Mikey and I are quite pleased that you do not think that smearing feces on Mikey’s mailbox is an appropriate way to demonstrate disagreement with the activities of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Mr. Weinstein as its Founder and President. That’s as far as I am willing to go in writing nice things about you, as the remainder of your email is the usual, bloviated clap-trap that passes for intelligent discourse among certain groups of uneducated people. First of all, please allow me to explain to you what the MRFF is and does, and what it is not and doesn’t do.

What MRFF does is to provide no-cost advice and assistance to military servicemembers whose First Amendment rights are being violated by the military chain of command. MRFF has been offering this service for close to two decades, and it has served almost 90,000 servicemembers, 95 percent of whom self-identify as Christian. The fact that someone might worship at a Christian church does not mean, however, that they want some kind of proselytizing Christianity shoved down their throat by every commissioned or non-commissioned officer in their chain of command. Nor do they want any particular religion set up in a taxpayer-supported facility—such as a military hospital—and featured in such a manner that anyone visiting the facility would reasonably conclude that this particular facility embraces this particular religion, in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution. What it does not do is lobby against anyone’s freedom to embrace any religion as they wish, or to embrace no religion at all—just as do the US Veterans Administration cemeteries, where a total of seventy-nine symbols have been approved for tombstones, including one for “Atheist” and one for “Humanist.” Freedom of religion and freedom from religion have been enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States since it was adopted in 1791, just two years after our republic came into existence in its present form. Contrary to your assertion that “the dis establishment [sic] clause as you know was popularized in the 1940s by rogue justices,” the protections of the First Amendment—and especially its guarantee of religious neutrality—was recognized quite early by the men who shaped our country. 

Take President Thomas Jefferson, for example. In addition to drafting the Declaration of Independence (with assistance from several other men), Jefferson was author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, an accomplishment he inscribed on his tombstone, which you can see at the cemetery at Monticello.

Here’s what Jefferson wrote to the Baptists of Danbury, CT, on 1 January 1802:

“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people [that is, the First Amendment] which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

It could hardly be clearer than that. But you obviously do not know much about Jefferson or you ignore him. Your assertion that, “the founders clearly intended this nation to be based upon the principles of Christianity . . . ,” demonstrates that you have no idea just how much our Founders wanted to avoid the religious strife that had characterized Europe, the homeland from which they all came. Indeed, it was during the administration of President George Washington that we negotiated, signed, and ratified a treaty with “the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary.” This treaty was ratified by the United States Senate, thus becoming the law of the land, in 1797. You might find it interesting that Article 11 of this treaty contains the following language:  

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion . . . .” 

Again, what could be clearer than that?

You are also quite uninformed, Mr. (name withheld), about the meaning of the frieze on the US Supreme Court building. You allude to the fact that Moses is included in this frieze, which you interpret to mean that Christianity was somehow intended to be featured at the time the building was constructed in the 1930s. First of all, as you must know, Moses was a Jew, so his presence on the frieze has nothing to do with Christianity. Jesus, I note, was not featured on the building. I don’t know where you are getting this stuff, possibly from some group of ignorant garbage-spreaders, but you should know that the Supreme Court frieze contains representations of eighteen men described in official Supreme Court literature as “lawgivers.” Yes, Moses is acknowledged as a lawgiver, as were Hammurabi and Confucius and Mohammed and John Marshall and others. The presence of Moses’ figure on the Supreme Court building is no more relevant to the protections of the First Amendment than if Donald Duck had been included in a Supreme Court frieze. 

All I can ask of you, Mr. (name withheld), is that you get a good constitutional law book—I recommend the venerable The American Constitution: Its Origins and Developmentby Kelly and Harbison—before you once again display your lack of erudition. Your rantings at MRFF and its Founder do not hold up in the light of day, and I trust that we will not hear from you again. 

Col. James T. Currie, USA (Ret.), Ph.D.
Board of Advisors, Military Religious Freedom Foundation


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3 Comments

  1. A.L. Hern December 24, 2024 at 6:17 pm

    The letter was written by someone who will only see, hear or think what he wants to. Facts, even those easily verifiable, are unwelcome in his personal universe.

    But one needn’t have read past his mistaken assertion that the Supreme Court has a rotunda to know that.

  2. Tom O December 27, 2024 at 12:33 pm

    This asshole claims that to prevent grossly unconstitutional active support of one religion by the US government is to “attack God to His face.”
    “The founders clearly intended this nation to be based upon the principles of Christendom, ” Which ones? The Treaty of Tripol, which was negotiated by emissaries appointed by Pres. George Washington, was signed by Pres. John Adams, and ratified UNANIMOUSLY without debate by the US senate in June 1797, says “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
    “can you explain Moses on the rotunda of the Supreme Court?” Yes, the Ten Commandments were an important step in the development of written laws, AND, as previously written, the Supreme Court building has no rotunda.

  3. Synergy January 3, 2025 at 9:52 pm

    I like the part where he says, “….members of your family should come to no Christ.”

    I agree! Getting closer to truth all the time!

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