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Published On: October 27, 2015|Categories: MRFF's Inbox|Comments Off on Question|

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I have but one question for your organization, if you do not believe in God or a Higher Power, then why does it matter to you what others believe? In reality, if you believe as you say, then there is nothing to worry about! If one chooses not to believe in something than it shouldn’t matter what others believe or how it effects something or someone. It doesn’t matter, right, so why the big fuss? Makes sense to me…

Enjoy your day!

(name withheld)

 

 

 

Dear (name withheld),

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is, as your question seems to acknowledge, an organization, not a person. As an organization, it does not have a belief system. It has a mission, a statement of which is available to you on line if you’d choose to look.
If you’ll do so, you’ll find that the organization is dedicated to supporting the Constitutionally protected but too often violated separation of church and state.

An organization, as I trust you understand, is made up of many individuals, all of whom have some form of belief system. While the beliefs of these individuals vary widely across the spectrum of religions and philosophies, most of them, as it happens, are Christians.

Believing, as these individuals do, that one’s freedom to believe or not believe, to subscribe to a particular faith or to have none at all, is an individual choice that may not be interfered with or circumscribed by the beliefs of any other, especially by any superior in the military hierarchy – itself a part of the U.S. Government – they believe the work of the MRFF is critical to the proper functioning of the military in our secular society.

In short, they don’t care what people believe and oppose no belief system. What they will not tolerate is the attempt by anyone who insists hers or his is “the one true faith” to impose it on others, an act contrary to the clear intention of the First Amendment and specifically clarified in law.

I hope that helps you better understand today’s reality.

Mike Farrell

(MRFF Board of Advisors)

 

Dear (name withheld),

It doesn’t matter to our organization what others believe in.  Simple as that.

What has lead you to believe we care about debating theology?

Blake A. Page
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Special Assistant to the President

 

 

 

 

 

 

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