WHO ME? CHANGE MY FAITH?

Below I leave to you the last word. This is because, notwithstanding all the above, you surely must not give up the fight to disprove Judaism. 

However, the trouble is that we have dismissed all attempts to contradict your heritage.

We have the implacable human testimony, forensic and circumstantial evidence and the demands of probability and mathematics. No trace of your ancestors existed in Canaan before Joshua and then suddenly they are all over the place. The Yemenites, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samarians and non-Jewish records corroborate our narrative for nearly 3000 years.

And, we have explained the evidential probity of the Freewill gap between ‘beyond any reasonable doubt’ and ‘beyond any shadow of a doubt whatsoever’. 

Forgive my repeating the argument again. There are the three pivotal points – the Sinai Argument, the masses of inevitable historical and archaeological evidence and Probability.

If we did not have Sinai or the masses of inevitable evidence, the single issue even a secularist must answer is the irritating Law of Probability. As discussed, this shows that we could not have survived on the basis of a lie. The odds are too ridiculously small that ‘our scam happened to get away with it.’ 

If Real Judaism is false then it must have failed long ago. We must not exist. You are statistically inexplicable.

None other of the 50,000 historic religions has survived with our story – because that story is too crazy – impossible to invent, impossible to sell. Unwitnessed personal revelations are of course easy to promulgate – billions today have pure blind faith in these.

If the whole story is a scam then you cannot exist as a Jew. If you are Jewish therefore it has got to be a non-scam. Look in that mirror again. You are a great survivor. It is a non-scam. A non-scam is simply a truth. The only explanation of this is that all that you have read in these four books is 50000 to 1 valid. 

There really seems no choice, as far as I can see, for an intelligent, logical and honest person.. All I can think of is simply to ignore the evidence in this book. Did I mention earlier that the ostrich will never fly?

As a judge in any criminal case, you would instruct the jury that the case is proven – as required by law - beyond any reasonable doubt. However, as the sole arbitrator of your 3000 years’ heritage, can you seriously say, ‘Case dismissed!’? If you were one of your non-Jewish friends, would you not advise the reconsideration of your ancient and very special religion before breaking that chain forever? Evidence beyond any reasonable doubt historically has hanged thousands upon tens of thousands of defendants. Today, it imprisons for life. Paradoxically, it could release you from perhaps a hum-drum, meaningless existence in the modern jungle. There really is a logical alternative.

And I really shall leave the last word to you. 

Please take the lectern and microphone:-

‘Now hold it right there, Buddy. I may not know why, but I know I am

right. You don’t win an argument just ’cos I can’t think of an answer. Never!

I am convinced someone has the answer. I have pure, blind, unflinching

faith that Judaism cannot be true. And, yes, I am willing to devote this, my

only life to that pure, blind, unflinching faith that Judaism cannot be true.

I will be a martyr to my pure, blind, unflinching faith. I have absolute

faith – perfect faith – that someone has the answer.

Nothing can shake my faith. I have faith, I just have faith.’