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Jack DeBaun (Daily Bee, Dec. 20, 2016), disagrees with my critique of his (Nov. 29, 2016) letter. I believe I made a reasonable inference from his so-called “historical perspective” that he is pinning the blame for violence and discord on religion, primarily Christianity. His lopsided historical perspective omitted the category where we find the overwhelming cause of violence and discord residing — atheistic humanism.

The study he sites from the “Journal of Religion and Society” is suspect. The author Gregory Paul is not even a qualified social scientist. He is a freelance writer and illustrator who creates drawings and paintings of dinosaurs. In a later issue of the same journal, professor of sociology and of religious studies Gary Jensen from Vanderbilt University said regarding Paul’s research, “This approach can be badly misleading and a similar approach could be taken to highlight problems in more secular nations.”

Regarding Steven Pinker’s views, I’d direct you to Google and type “uncommondescent.com pinker” for a cogent critique of his book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature.”

Living off the Christian inheritance of the West, we see these ongoing deceptive efforts of atheist/humanists to create a humanistic social paradigm by trying to undermine a biblical Christian worldview via revisionist history and misleading research. Give humanism a try Jack says? No thanks. If the goal is to minimize violence and uncivilized behavior, history shows it’s not atheistic humanism.

TIM KNAPP

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