Jarett Kobek
Los Angeles, CA 90029

Mr. Dave Sim
Aardvark Vanaheim, Inc
P.O. Box 1674
Station C
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 4R2

July 19, 2007

Dear Dave,

You blog post of July 1st touches, in part, on your syncretic view of the Abrahamic religions. I was hoping that I could get clarification on a few of the ideas you mentioned, and maybe a sense of how you arrived at them.

Excuse my inevitable misinterpretations, but I gather that your beliefs are roughly as such: there is a Creator God, Who created not only the world, but also a (or a number of) Demiurges, one of whom was the Canaanite god Ba’al. Ba’al is more commonly known as YHWH, and you believe that YHWH was the entity responsible for the inspiration of the Torah, the New Testament, and the al-Qu’ran. This semi-reliable source, I would gather, accounts for the crap thrown in alongside the quality.

I hope that this summary is roughly accurate, as I’d like to ask you a few questions based on it. Obviously, with the identification of the Demiurge with YHWH, you have a direct antecedent in some of the Gnostic sects, but the conflation of YHWH with Ba’al is, as far as I know, unique to you. This brings up any number of questions: foremost, I think, is how you came to the idea that the two were one and the same? Secondly, does the literal existence of one pagan god imply the literal existence of others? Or is YHWH somehow a special case? Third, if YHWH is a special case, do you have any idea why? Fourth, and finally, I think, what exactly do you believe the nature of YHWH to be? Corporal being? Metaphysical entity? Something else entirely?

Thanks for your time. I am,

Most Sincerely Yours,

Jarett Kobek