Dear Editor,

Regarding the letter “There’s no God”, by WW Wood on January 1, contrary to what he says, science has not, and will not prove that “man’s brain… constitutes his mind, his soul, his spirit”. Nor has the church ever burned anyone at the stake for believing such stupidity. Further, neither the Bible nor God has ever “endorsed” slavery.

Through man’s conscience, a primal remembrance of the objective good and true is bestowed on us by God. No doubt the conscience can, in some like Wood, be degraded at its most core level to that of a mechanism producing excuses for one’s conduct. In this case the atheist incrementally begins to construct a wall of resistance to belief in God. This neglect of one’s own being ultimately dulls one to the voice of truth and makes one incapable of any longer hearing the voice of conscience. Convictions, then, might seem rational but are only the product of self-righteousness, conformism, and intellectual laziness.

If truth was “subjective” as Wood claims, then everyone would have their own truth. Truth itself would be contradictory and cease to exist. Ultimately, genuine freedom would cease to exist. Our moral actions would be reduced to nothing more than reflex responses to various opinions and preceding social circumstances. In the final analysis, we would be left without the means to create a shared will and a shared responsibility.

Wood claims to know with certainty that atheism is the working of the human mind and not the gift of any God. Yet for all his certainty, he can’t explain where reason and our ability to rationalise comes from. Common sense tells is that it comes from God.

The man that says, “There is no God” is a fool. May God not allow us to drift any further into this desert of godlessness.

Paul Kokoski

pkokoski@mountaincable.net