Dear, Dr. Pinker

Dear,
Dr. Pinker

I will sidestep your saying archeology does not support scripture. It does. I will sidestep your argument that science does not support scripture. God is omnipotent.

What I will say, is that in your interview with Penguin you said, "This world seems to be exactly what the world would seem, if there were no God. Good men suffer, and bad men don't." I paraphrase. But that is the summation of why you don't believe in God.

I wrote you an email, saying, "This world is exactly what you would find, if men had no fear of God." I hope you infer from that where my argument will go.

Religion is not a noble lie. It is not something, like Plato posits, that men create to help regulate the populace, and allow for the most amount of happiness. It'd be easy to go that route, with severe amounts of doubt, but the tangible proof only can affirm what the Gospel teaches. The concrete historical evidence and the actual factual evidence. However, I've written about that evidence to other writers, whom I have published the correspondences.

However, what you said about creating justice for the purpose of helping people make choices---is that not why there is hell? And if bad men were to go unpunished, what would prevent them from making this Earth a hell? Men are unable to rationalize---without religion---the effects they have on others. Most religions were creations of men to help men get along, and so build societies which could work. Because the general Laws found in most religions are paralleled across all cultures and civilizations, with many exceptions.

Yet, without God---and you should know, as a Jewish Man---Who would ultimately judge, as that is what God means in Hebrew, isn't it? Is "Judge". And without fear of Him, what restrains a man from accomplishing all his desire on the innocent? Obviously a conscience. Yet, many cultures had their consciences removed---some even by religion---so to what effect does this have? Tangibly, scientifically, we see as many appeals to authority and law as there are civilizations. Yet, the human heart already comes wired with knowledge of equity. Where does this come from? And the worst individuals are those who see the abuse given to them, and then go out and try to rectify it with their own brand of justice. Is there no other one worse than this? Then the man whose only law is one appealed to himself? Therefore, Who is it that arbitrates the holy law? It must be God. As there are many pointless abuses caused by Human Justice which ought to be obvious. And when every man walks according to the justice he creates in his heart---what can there be but war? And in that, is why it seems like God is absent. Because men have gone astray from His law, and the cause of that is hardness of heart and unbelief. And a refusal to accept the entirety of His law. Which men, given free agency by God, can choose Him or not---as that is the only choice. And by not choosing him, they choose to live by their own standard, and thereby create enormous amounts of suffering ipso facto.