You Can Deny God — But You Cannot Erase the Evidence

Why antisemitism, moral collapse, and the rejection of truth are never accidents

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What happened in Sydney wasn’t random.
It wasn’t an accident.
And it certainly wasn’t unforeseeable.

Eleven people were murdered at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach—gunned down for the crime of lighting candles, praying openly, and existing as Jews in public. Israeli leaders are now saying what polite Western governments refuse to say out loud: this bloodshed was warned about.

Benjamin Netanyahu says Australia poured fuel on an antisemitic fire. Others argue the government ignored clear warning signs, excused hatred, and legitimized violence by rebranding it as “political expression.” And here is the uncomfortable truth—this did not begin with bullets. It began with ideas.

In Chapter 20 of God: The Science, The Evidence, authors Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies make a chilling observation: when a civilization rejects objective truth—when it denies moral law as revealed in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures—it does not become neutral. It becomes dangerous.

They show that science itself points to order, intelligibility, and design. But when societies discard belief in a personal, loving, and intelligent Creator, they do not become more tolerant. They lose the foundation for moral restraint. Right and wrong dissolve into opinion. Evil becomes “understandable.” Violence becomes “contextual.” Eventually, acceptable casualty rates—whether in abortion clinics or jihadist manifestos—become disturbingly normal.

And that is exactly what we are witnessing.

Chants of “Globalize the Intifada” were not treated as threats. They were treated as speech. Hatred was normalized. Warnings were dismissed. And then the inevitable happened.

Bolloré and Bonnassies warn that when truth is severed from reason and morality is severed from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the strong inevitably target the visible, the faithful, and the vulnerable. History does not repeat—it resumes.

This is not merely a failure of policy.
It is a failure of moral courage.

And this sickness is not confined to Australia.

Antisemitism is accelerating here in the United States as well. Synagogues are guarded like fortresses. Jewish students are harassed on elite campuses. Open calls for violence are rebranded as activism. And once again, elites equivocate, institutions hedge, and the media pretends this is merely political passion spilling over.

📎 Related: Amanpour on PBS: “Very Disappointing” That Most Americans Oppose Slavery Reparations
👉 https://www.mrctv.org/videos/amanpour-pbs-very-disappointing-most-americans-oppose-slavery-reparations

But hatred never spills over accidentally.
It is taught.
It is tolerated.
And then it is unleashed.

America is flirting with the same moral error Bolloré and Bonnassies warn against—the belief that we can discard absolute truth and still maintain order. We cannot. When morality becomes subjective, the oldest hatreds return first, because they no longer face the resistance of reality.

And yet—here is what the haters can never explain.

The Jewish people should not exist.

Empires that swore to erase them are gone. Ideologies that promised their annihilation are footnotes. Pharaoh. Rome. The Inquisition. The Reich. The Soviets. Hamas. Gone—or failing.

And still, the Hebrew people endure.
Same land.
Same language.
Same faith.

Bolloré and Bonnassies call this the improbable made permanent—a people preserved against every statistical, historical, and biological expectation. Not by power. Not by territory. But by purpose.

The survival of the Jewish people is not merely historical.
It is theological.
It is evidence.

You can deny God.
You can deny moral law.
You can deny truth itself.

But you cannot erase the evidence.

On PBS this week, Christiane Amanpour expressed visible disappointment that most Americans oppose slavery reparations. A Pew Research poll showing 68 percent opposition was framed not as public consensus—but as moral failure.

To reinforce the point, Amanpour and her guests placed the United States in the same moral category as Syria, describing reparations as a form of “transitional justice” necessary to reckon with America’s past.

That is not journalism.
It is ideological theater.

And it depends on one thing: historical amnesia.

Because America has already tried reparations.

In January 1865, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, acting under the authority of a Republican-led federal government, issued Special Field Order No. 15. The order confiscated land from defeated Confederate slaveholders and redistributed it to newly freed Black families—up to forty acres per household—along with surplus Army mules.

This was not symbolic.
This was not hypothetical.
This was real reparative policy.

It was supported by Radical Republicans, enforced by the Union Army, and aligned with Reconstruction-era efforts such as the Freedmen’s Bureau.

That policy was dismantled after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, when President Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat, issued mass pardons to former Confederates and returned confiscated land to ex-slaveholders. That reversal locked generations of Black Americans out of land ownership and economic independence.

Not Republican Reconstruction.
Not Union victory.
But Democratic retrenchment.

That history is rarely taught on PBS.

Modern reparations proposals bear little resemblance to this reality. They demand cash payments from people who never owned slaves to people generations removed from slavery—without clear limits, accountability, or end dates.

Americans sense the difference.

What they reject is not history.
It is moral misalignment.

Amanpour also questioned why the United States never created a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” as if the Civil War never happened, as if more than 600,000 Americans did not die, and as if constitutional amendments did not abolish slavery, establish citizenship, and protect voting rights.

History was not ignored.
It was fought over—violently.

What today’s media elites want is not reconciliation.
It is perpetual moral leverage.

Nearly seven out of ten Americans oppose modern reparations not because they deny the past, but because they reject collective guilt untethered from responsibility.

They understand something elites do not:

Justice that is not anchored in truth eventually becomes injustice itself.

Run to win.
Be God’s friend.

And remember—

It pays to serve Jesus.

— James T. Harris