Letter of Apology:

To Darwin Bedford:

I apologize for the Christians and Christian energies of all times for their trespasses committed and their lapses in manners and conduct.  It is totally unacceptable.

I just found out (oh boy was I asleep) how pathetically we have really been treating you.  This realization has made me sick (physically and mentally) and I sincerely seek your forgiveness through repentance.

There is no excuse for the way we have treated you and, from what I understand, still do.  There is no reason for anything but unconditional love, unselfish sharing and total caring for who you are as an individual.  

For all your lifetime we have done you so very wrong abusing you one way or another, consciously or not (no excuse will ever be acceptable here) and have in fact fueled the fire that retarded our mutual advancement to our total possibility.  We did evil, because we have been absent of guilt.

If we feel guilty then this is a good sign that we are not entirely evil.

I want to apologize specifically for some of our transgressions:

1)  We apologize for violating your person when you were just a few days old by hurting you by cutting the foreskin from your penis. We did so without your permission, and we regret that you view its altered appearance as unnatural and "silly looking."  We understand your point that you now look like you could be a follower of our religion when in fact you are not.  We're sorry that you have taken this action as receiving early notice in life of the Christian institution's intention and powers in exercising control over you without your consent.

2)  We apologize for forcing you to stand up to recite the "Lord's Prayer" every day of your schooling and for forcing you to listen to readings from our holy book, the Bible.  This was despite you making it abundantly clear that you did not believe in our God nor our holy scriptures. We regret that when you finally obtained permission to be excused from the religious activities in the classroom, that you were made to sit directly in front of the Christian who read them over the school's public announcement system.

3)  We're sorry that you were left with no playmates every Sunday of your childhood because we forced them to participate in Sunday school, even though they strenuously objected.  We also acknowledge that you hold the content of what we subjected them to as falsities.  

4)  We apologize for numerous times in your life that you were asked to pray to our God at social gatherings even though many a time it was known that not everyone present was a Christian.

5)  We apologize for all the funerals that you have attended of people you knew where the format has been restricted and seemed like Christian infomercials.

6)  We apologize for "torturing" you, as you say, for having to hear songs and music rejoicing the birthday of our Lord wherever you go in public for two entire months of every twelve.

No more, I promise—as of now this will change.  I will encourage my fellow Christians to be more mindful of your rights and of the position you and many others have for our religion.  We will no longer seek to confront you with our religion at every opportunity.  In fact, we will proactively endeavor to minimize and eliminate the situations in which this is now occurring.  We will lobby governments to remove the domination of our religion in all acts and laws governing the diversified, multicultural society of today.