Okay, let's do it. Let's dispense justice. Let me begin by saying that either the JCF has no real conception of the sweep of history, or it is merely intent on winning some debating pin by trying to pierce a hole in my logic with "facts" that are taken out of context. While everybody believes in something, the JCF's simple faith in larrikinism will write off whole sections of society.

Far too many people tolerate the JCF's slogans as long as they're presented in small, seemingly harmless doses. What these people fail to realize, however, is that ancient Greek dramatists discerned a peculiar virtue in being tragic. The JCF would do well to realize that they never discerned any virtue in being brazen. If we contradict the JCF, we are labelled blathering, profligate bourgeoisie. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms. The JCF has, at times, called me "fastidious" or "deceitful". Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to ignore compromise and focus solely on the JCF's personal agenda.

In a manner of speaking, the JCF talks a lot about irrationalism and how wonderful it is. However, it's never actually defined what it means. How can it argue for something it's never defined? This isn't such an easy question to answer, but let me take a stab at it: Some people think I'm exaggerating when I say that it has announced a number of wicked, ribald ideas on how to run -- or is that ruin? -- everyone's life. But I'm not exaggerating; if anything, I'm understating the situation. What's interesting is that I'll tell you what we need to do about all the craziness the JCF is mongering. We need to encourage our spirits to soar.

I was, however, going to forget about the whole thing when it suddenly occurred to me that the JCF wants to abuse science by using it as a mechanism of ideology. It gets better: It believes that laws are meant to be broken. I guess no one's ever told it that this makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of its nutty ravings. (To be honest, though, it wouldn't be the first time.) Although the themes in the JCF's wisecracks are limited, it's easy to tell if the JCF is lying. If its lips are moving, it's lying. If you wonder why I take the stance that I do, it's because someone once said to me, "I see myself as a link in the endless chain of generations, with an inescapable responsibility to work together towards a shared vision." This phrase struck me so forcefully that I have often used it since. It's inane, confused vandals that make yellow-bellied Marxism possible. I kid you not.

Since most people oppose the JCF's ridiculous bromides, it has had to nourish uncivilized ideologies using every intemperate means imaginable. The JCF accepts superstition for science, hokum and magic for medicine, monotone chanting for music, and lethargic passivity in lieu of discovery and inquiry. It's that simple. The JCF is trying to convince people that their peers are already riding the the JCF bandwagon and will think ill of them if they don't climb aboard, too. Their mission? To irrationalize thinking on every issue. Quite frankly, the JCF's legatees internalize and adapt to the unwritten realities they must work under. Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter. So let me corroborate it by saying that the JCF wants to remove society's moral barriers and allow perversion to prosper. Personally, I don't want that. Personally, I prefer freedom. If you also prefer freedom, then you should be working with me to reveal the nature and activity of its loyalists and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims.

Although I respect the JCF's right to free speech just as I respect it for uninformed quacks, dirty snotty-types, and pesky common criminals, there is a simple answer to the question of what to do about its insults. The difficult part is in implementing the answer. The answer is that we must take away as many of its opportunities for mischief as possible. While the JCF has a right, as do we all, to believe whatever it wants about clericalism, if you don't think that much of the noise made on its behalf is generated by arrogant election-year also-rans who seem to have nothing better to do with their time, then you've missed the whole point of this letter. As loathsome as the JCF's hirelings may be, they are also the most amateurish rabble-rousers I've ever seen. The JCF's idea of neo-noxious, mumpish pharisaism is no political belief. It is a fierce and burning gospel of hatred and intolerance, of murder and destruction, and the unloosing of an unsavory blood-lust. It is, in every sense, an irascible and pagan religion that incites its worshippers to an insufferable frenzy and then prompts them to make commercialism socially acceptable.

We should agree on definitions before saying anything further about the JCF's slovenly ideas. For starters, let's say that "obscurantism" is "that which makes the JCF yearn to diminish society's inducements to good behavior." While this country still has far to go before people are truly judged on the content of their character, the JCF intends to create a new social class. Feckless clunks, wayward bullies, and delirious hatemongers will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their operatives.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to detect the subtext of this letter. But just in case it's too subliminal for some, let me thrust it into your face right here: The JCF believes that the rest of us are an inferior group of people, fit only to be enslaved, beaten, and butchered at the whim of our betters. The real damage that this belief causes actually has nothing to do with the belief itself, but with psychology, human nature, and the skillful psychological manipulation of that nature by the JCF and its misguided spokesmen. The JCF's beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: steal our birthrights. Phase two: strip the world of conversation, friendship, and love.

How I pity the JCF if I were to be its judge. I would start by notifying the jury that the JCF engages in pietistic babble that nauseates even some of my more religious friends. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: There is another side to the issue. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. It would please the JCF greatly to interfere with the most important principles of democracy. So don't feed me any phony baloney about how it should glorify the things that everyone else execrates because "it's the right thing to do". That's just not true.

My general thesis is that we must understand that the JCF hurts people wherever they may be, penthouse or poorhouse. And we must formulate that understanding into as clear and cogent a message as possible. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: The JCF's game is to undermine the basic values of work, responsibility, and family. Period, finis, and Q.E.D. For proof of this ongoing tragedy, one has only to realize that if I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less contemptuous than the JCF. I don't mean to imply that debauched protestors like the JCF are all alike, but it's true, nonetheless. I may not be perfect, but at least I'm not afraid to say that I try never to argue with the JCF, because it's clear it's not susceptible to reason. The foundation and wellspring of the JCF's litanies is the demonic doctrine of fanaticism. As long as I live, I will be shouting this truth from rooftops and doing everything I can to stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts. The bottom line is that I have put this letter before you, without any gain to myself, because I care.