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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Mike Schilling wrote:   
      
   > "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
   > news:j67fa3-rlc.ln1@news.pointerstop.ca...   
   >> John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> It's not really an allegory. Aslan isn't a /symbol/ of Christ; within   
   >>> the fictional story, he literally /is/ Christ.   
   >>>   
   >> Oooh, that annoys me.   
   >>   
   >> Of course, he's not _literally_ Christ.   
   >   
   > Yes, Aslan is literally Christ.   
      
   Sorry, but he definitely isn't.   
      
   >> That would be a form of blasphemy.   
   >   
   > Why?  If Christ can incarnate as a human here, why not as a lion in   
   > Narnia?   
      
   Well, ask a cross-section of Christian theologians whether, if there is   
   intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, if it's possible that they can   
   have been "saved".  If so, ask if Christ could have appeared to them.   
   You'll get the whole gamut of responses, but there are a good number of   
   Christian sects who will say that Christ came to _us_ and _only us_.  Those   
   same people will have a serious problem with the concept that Aslan _IS_   
   Christ.  otoh, I have no problem with ETs, but I have major problems with   
   the idea that Aslan is anything more than a representation of Christ.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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