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   John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   > Morgil wrote:   
   >   
   >> Calormen has too many similarities to Middle-East to   
   >> be dismissed as merely hypothetical, IMO, so the only   
   >> questionabe assumption would be that equating Tash   
   >> with Aslan mirrors Lewis' views of suggesting that   
   >> Allah and Christian God were one and the same.   
   >> Knowing how hostile many Christians, pseudo and not,   
   >> are toward that idea, it seems at least plausable.   
   >   
   >   
   > All educated Christians (a fortiori, Lewis) are perfectly aware that   
   > Allah is A) Arabic for "the God" and B) the Arabic name of the God of   
   > Abraham.   
      
   They are aware but they don't necessarily agree that it is so.   
   I could probably point out such people from this very newsgroup.   
      
   Morgil   
      
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