Dear Mr. Bedford,

I have no intention of arguing with your position, because I think that it

would be as pointless for me to try to argue away your disbelief as it would

be for you to try to argue away my belief.

First, I feel that your approach is ineffective.  If you look at all of the

major religions, you will see that the one's that have gained the greatest

popularity preach at least respect - and almost universally, love - for

others, and hold kindness up as a virtue to be practiced by all.  This

should tell you that love is popular, and so I feel that your apparently

angry, condescending approach will turn people away.

A point about your advertisements for "anti-God" items.  Many of the bumper

stickers and other merchandise viewable through links from your web page are

completely compatible with most religions (at least Catholicism, the one I

subscribe to and know best).  For example, the phrase "no one is free when

others are oppressed" would be agreeable to any Christian; I would be the

first to agree that "Jesus was not a bigot"; I too am against sexism and

self-righteousness; I also believe that every religion should be free to

express itself; I too have a great number of problems with the Republican

party; and I feel that any true Christian, and many members of other

religions, would agree with me.  Catholicism and many other world religions

are fine with evolution, so to promote the evolutionist theory does not in

any way contradict religion.  Certainly, some of them take a poke at

religion, but by being openly hostile and instigative, not by their

argument.

One last note.  Much of the merchandise advertised through our page refers

to the separation of Church and State.  While I admit that it is a popular

point of view that the Church and State should be separate, that is not the

belief on which our particular nation was founded.  The United States was

founded on a belief in God - not any particular God, necessarily, but a God.

  All of the references to the relationship between Church and State in the

Constitution and other laws were created for the purpose of promoting

religion on a wide scale.  Again, the intention was night to promote any one

religion, but to encourage belief in general.  Any argument in favor of

eliminating any hint of religion from our country is an argument against the

way the United States was created and still runs.

I invite your feedback.  Please respond to this e-mail address with any

comments.

Sincerely yours,

Juan M****