Dear, Peter Boghossian

Dear,
Dr. Boghossian


Why do you feel the need to proselytize your belief? It seems like you believe that “Faith” is blind obedience to an archaic law. Well, I’ve studied history and it seems like that archaic law is the subconscious of man. Men inherently pattern themselves off of that law, whether we want to believe it or not. So, let’s get back to the fact that you feel it necessary to proselytize. Belief in life after death---in my opinion---seems paramount for human flourishing. Without it, our freedom has been severely diminished in the light of “Science.” Science, which tells us that a flu virus is serious enough to shut down civilization. We must suspend our freedoms in the name of science. You cannot blame that on religion. It is purely science.

Second thing, since you are so big on empirical knowledge, what empirical knowledge says that men are half way between? That they can be both genders at once, just by feeling it? That seems more like faith to me, than the faith I ascribe to, which sees a man is clearly a man, and a woman is clearly a woman. Which, leads us to what faith is. Lao Tsu, Plato, and other philosophers had found it. In the Tao Te Tsing, Lao Tsu is speaking of an underlying substrate which exists beyond human perception or human ability to speak. Seeing that different languages speak different words for different concepts, the fact remains that the concept still exists. It, then as Plato would say, is embodied in the concept of Word or Logos. Take that one step further, what we find through Word and Tao is the teachings of Christ Jesus. That His teachings were preeminent, and spoke the most amount of truth. Seeing that I imagine Jesus teaching every word of the Bible, and telling stories of David, Moses, quoting the Law verbatim, what we find in that is still truth.

Unfortunately, you’ve looked at two chapters in Genesis, and determined the whole Bible were false. And, certainly, a certain substrate of Christians believe in those chapters. And this is where the problems arise, is that you think of Christians as backward bumpkins believing the world were six thousand years old. Certainly, the great bulk of Christians know evolution is true, and know the Earth is old. It’s not something that makes us shutter, and when I think of God, I think of a being big enough to create the world. For, how many worlds are there? How many worlds has God created? It could be that we are in one world with a universe, and Genesis is talking of the Prime World, the first of God’s creation. Or, it could just be that God created our world---literally---as the book of Genesis describes. It was just like an author writing a book. At different times, the LORD took up the pen, in seven days, and ordered the universe. When game designers create RPGs, they create it in different ways. First are the environments, then the textures, then the animals, and finally the sprites are put in with their dialogues and stories. Why would God create the world any differently?

This gets to the problem with your empiricism. Matter is being created with light---which seems to be a blaspheme---and seeing that particle physics are doubting the very universe we live in, the fact remains that we do not live on a two dimensional plane. Rather, it is faith---knowing the objective world, and seeing the invisible planes of creation and the ordering of the universe---that tells us the objective world is real. Because it must be---for if it isn’t, imagine the disorder and chaos that would ensue? And given this fact, imagine if Will were proven to exert power over the universe? How close they are to determining this, and then the entire house of cards fall for Western Empiricism. Yet, Western Empiricism works on the premise of a sound, grounded foundation. It must, therefore, look at ethical forms of technology and ethical forms of knowledge, that certain kinds of technology are dangerous, even blasphemous. And if we look at the world like this, it proves what Christ had already said. That the mountains can move with faith, and the trees. Not that these things are subject to will, but that faith is seeing the truth, the substrata of what is tangible underneath the artifice of words.

Faith is more like algebra than it is blind. Algebra is blind, but it is a logical way of looking at the world which is proven through empirical data. Faith is this, only with morals. It is a moral algebra, which when understood to the most difficult aspects of Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Chemistry, it proves the ordering of the world, and a moral nature which must govern our ways. It proves itself above all other things, that there are certain things which are unnatural, and therefore unethical. That certain ideas ought not be entertained. Because it creates scientific disasters. And faith understands the moral reasons for this. It attains the ethical foundations of the world, and it proves itself because it creates happier societies. And if we fear death---for fear of death is a vice, which makes men unhappy---it is because men fear the afterlife. It is because they covet this life, and if all men fear losing this life, the fact remains that nobody will ever live it. And in that, unnatural states of technology will have to compensate for this, and create artificial realities and things which are false light. It will confuse the nature of organic reality, and trap people in Hell. For that is what hell is, I’m certain, is a technological prison, a hallucination of the dead body where nothing is real. And it is faith that finds the substance, and cures the paranoid delusions. Seeing the world for what it actually is, discovering the nature behind our artifices, that is what discovers the true reality, and Faith is seeing the moral nature of that reality and knowing the destruction aberrations of that moral nature create. And because of this, we are suffering under the aberration of faith right now, and this is why the world suffers. Or, perhaps why it rejoices while the common man loses the beautiful amenities that kept us happy. For, why does the world rejoice, and I mourn? Like Christ said? Because the world abandons all truth, even the most fundamental like Man and Woman, and they deny the power of Word and abandon even the Scientific Method for the sake of, what is in all reality, Witchcraft. And when science ceases to be science, and it becomes witchcraft, then we will know that it is against Faith, which is the Moral Algebra that if understood, helps man create beneficial patterns of being.