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   From: tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   westprog wrote:   
      
   > "Mike Schilling"  wrote in message   
   > news:zH6Bf.14817$Jd.8043@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...   
   > >   
   > > "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.   
   >   
   > Lewis makes it very, very clear in the later books that Aslan is really   
   > Christ. Gandalf, though he dies and rises again, clearly _isn't_ Christ. (He   
   > isn't an allegory of Christ either).   
      
   Can you imagine Christ playing a game of chase with kids and carrying kids on   
   his back?   
      
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