Article #301
Subject: Letter asking for a reply to my questions after reading books
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/15/2017 11:50:56 AM

February 21, 1984

Dear Friends,

Thank you for replying to my criticisms and letting me know what you think about them. There is some
truth in what you say about Christianity and Judaism. However, I stilll have a few areas in which I am
puzzled about your assertions. And, since sometimes it is not as easy to get answers out of a whole set
of books as it is to question the person himself who wrote them. I would prefer to continue our dialogue
as we have been doing so far.

Here is my question. If the knowledge in your religion is knowledge about knowledge, I am not sure I
see how lit can have any application or use at all. For, it seems to me what you know is not about
psychology, medicine, engineering, or physics, but about knowledge itself which is none of these
things. Is it possible that your religion is in fact guilty of having the same lack of knowledge out
usefulness you claim exists in Christianity and Judaism>

I am familiar with the face that wehuwans, in and of ourselves, are limited fallible creatures. I believe
that we often need the help of a higher power/persons to solve our problems. And, i believe that
sometimes we even need God's help. Perhaps it is true that we need his help to know about knowing.

I will give you a reason for thinking this. What are we aware of ourselves, the conscious part of our
minds, is only part of our knowledge. In fact, it is impossible for us to everything about what and how
we know things. For even if we humans each had someone else who could observe our subconscious,
which we don't, there would always have to be someone else to check on him or her. There would
always have to be one more observer than the total number of humans who existed at any one time.
This is necessary for everyone's subconscious mind to be understood. Thus, in oder to completely know
what we know, God is a logical necessity. When it comes to questions about God and religion I do not
play dice. And, I hope you don't either.

If you are interested in learning something about theology you will find some useful information in the
study list I have enclosed.

Love,
Andrew

Questions for discussion

#1 Who is the Author of the foregoing discussions... i.e. who are you?
#2 What has love got to do with it?
#3 What is the purpose of making judaism and Christianity one religion?
#4 What is the Gift that once given cannot be taken back?
#5 What is the Truth and Why Do We Need to Speak it/

Our answers to these questions will be sent to you in return for a one or two page memorandum letting
us know what you think on the subject.

Additional Study List

1) World Peace in Truth, The Center Magazine, March/April 1979,
How to Think About God. MacMilln. 1980
Six Great Ideas, MacMillan, 1982 all by Mortimer J. Adler

2)The Provincal Letters, Pensees, Scientific Treatises, by Blaise Pascl, Great Books of the Western
World vol. 33