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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   westprog wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
   > news:g7gfa3-g5e.ln1@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.   
   >   
   > Er... Aslan is a fictional character. Lewis is not saying that Christ did   
   > incarnate in other worlds - or that other worlds exist. He's saying that   
   > this is what might happen. If you have a problem with this, then you have   
   > a problem with Lewis.   
      
   No, I have a problem with people who want to define a fictional character as   
   the real Christ.  It's an allegory.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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