XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: morestelx@hotmail.com   
      
   nystulc@cs.com wrote:   
   > Morgil wrote:   
   >   
   >>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?   
   >   
   >   
   > If there is a parallel to pseudo-Christian bigots view of Islam, I   
   > have no idea what it is.  Were there really, in Lewis' day pseudo-   
   > Christian bigots fomenting conspiracy theories about Muslims hatching   
   > plots to delude Christians into believing that Mohammed and Jesus were   
   > the same person?  Do such conspiracies, or conspiracy theories, exist   
   > today?  Or have I incorrectly stated whatever analogy you have in   
   > mind?   
      
   Certainly, but we can go with that as well. The book   
   I'm reading about Lewis says he took very seriously the   
   warning from Matthew 24:24, and it inspired his Tashlan:   
   "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,   
   and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,   
   if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."   
      
   Now it goes without saying that there has always been   
   a lot of Christians of all type, who have claimed that   
   this description fits perfectly Mohammed. Of course we   
   can't be certain of how Lewis saw it, but when we put   
   together the Middle-Eastern air of Calormen, and the   
   false Christ/false prophet plotline, it does not seem   
   impossible that this is what he was aiming at.   
      
   Morgil   
      
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