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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   John W. Kennedy wrote:   
      
   > Derek Broughton wrote:   
   >> 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_.   
   >   
   > I call /that/ blasphemy.   
   >   
   > In any case, like it or not, it is an ascertainable fact that Lewis   
   > disagreed with that position, both with respect to Narnia and with   
   > respect to other hypothetical races outer space.   
      
   Which doesn't make Aslan as Christ any less allegorical.   
   --   
   derek   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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