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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   If you're going to call Lewis a liar, kindly have the decency to do it   
   outright, instead of making snide remarks.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "But now is a new thing which is very old--   
   that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,   
   which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."   
      -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"   
      
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