XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien
From: morestelx@hotmail.com
Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:51:02 +0300, Morgil wrote:
>
>
>>nystulc@cs.com wrote:
>>
>>>Öjevind Lång wrote:
>>
>>>>Do you mean that there was an element of anti-Muslim sentiment in
>>>>his depiction of the calormenes?
>>>
>>>
>>>No. That's not what I meant. That's what I thought YOU meant, and
>>>that was the proposition I was asking if you could defend. You seem
>>>to have completely failed so far. Specifically, I am referring to the
>>>following proposition, by another poster, which you agreed with:
>>>"I've always felt it bears a resemblance to a pseudo-Christian bigot's
>>>idea of Islam. I _hope_ Lewis didn't intend that, but I'm afraid he
>>>might have."
>>
>>How about that thing where these West Asian people
>>come up with an evil plot to make it look like their
>>bloodthirsty demon-god was in fact the same person as
>>the benevolent Aslan, to get the more naiive Narnians
>>to accept him. Do you think that points to ancient
>>Mesopotamians or Persians too, and has nothing to do
>>with how pseudo-Christian bigots would view Islam?
>
>
> That is even more far-fetched.
Can you explain why?
> They aren't Wexst Asian people, they are Calormenes. There is no Asia in
> Narnia, and even the constellations of the stars are different.
The previous posters had already agreed that Calormenes
bear a resemblence to the West Asian people. Question
was wheter they were modeled after Muslims or older
civilizations.
Or are you
> determined to show that Lewis was a"pseudo-Christian bigot"? What evidence do
> you have that his Christianity was false?
Again, the question wasn't wheter Lewis was one, but
if his writings beared a resemblence to their ideas.
Morgil
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