XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
   > John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   > And if you're going to snidely snipe at me, try not to.   
   >   
   > I'm not calling Lewis a liar,   
      
   Yes you are.   
      
   And the fact that you deny it in the very same thread where you are   
   doing it makes you a barefaced liar, and, ipso facto, an open disgrace   
   to the name of "Christian".   
      
   *PLONK*   
      
   --   
   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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