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|    Siwel Naph to Huan the hound    |
|    Re: The Lion, the Which and the Wardrobe    |
|    05 Oct 05 07:20:16    |
      XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis       From: toomuchspam@spammer.org              Huan the hound wrote:              >> Well, they judge everything they do by M.C./Mere X-ism. If it fits --       >> in their sincere-but-not-infallible opinion -- they allow it; if not,       >> they don't.       >>       > Ok, now I understand what you mean. *I* thought you meant       > everyone was a mere Christian there; you seem to mean that       > the place's laws are based on mere Christianity. If we       > can't assume that the inhabitants and interpreters of law       > are themselves mere Christians, then it could be       > intimidating to go there as a Jew, Muslim, homosexual...       > whatever else was in your list. However if all the       > inhabitants were mere Christians, I stand by my original post.              So mere Christians disappeared between Constantine and the Quakers? And       St Paul (who had rather stern things to say about certaing groups and       didn't oppose slavery AFAIK) wasn't a mere Christian?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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