XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: morestelx@hotmail.com   
      
   nystulc@cs.com wrote:   
   > Morgil wrote:   
   >   
   >>Calormen has too many similarities to Middle-East to   
   >>be dismissed as merely hypothetical, IMO, [...]   
   >   
   >   
   > You keep on subtly shifting the goal post.  You are apparently   
   > realizing that if you do not lower the bar, you won't be able to reach   
   > it.   
   >   
   > Nobody is denying that the Calormens are modelled after a Mesopotamian/   
   > Egyptian-style (Middle Eastern) pagan empire.  Nobody is trying to   
   > dismiss these similarities as merely hypothetical.   Indeed it was I   
   > who pointed out that their Turbans (formed from strips of cloth   
   > wrapped around a pointed helmet) resemble a design specifically   
   > associated with ancient pagan Persia   
      
   Steve Hayes who I was responding to, was.   
      
   > What you keep FAILING to do is demonstrate your SPECIFIC claim that   
   > Lewis was trying to say something about Muslims, as distinct from   
   > other historical peoples and cultures of Mesopotamia.   
      
   Actually it was not *my* specific claim. I merely presented   
   some insight of why it might seem that way. But I have   
   repeatedly stated that it cannot be said for sure.   
      
      
   >>Knowing how hostile many Christians, pseudo and not,   
   >>are toward that idea, it seems at least plausable.   
   >   
   >   
   > No-one who knows anything about Lewis' religious thought would   
   > consider this plausible.  He believed his religion was right and the   
   > Islamic religion (therefore) wrong to the extent in conflict.  But he   
   > was perfectly well aware of the common ground between them.   
      
   Well, that depends what you (and Lewis) would mean by "wrong".   
      
   Morgil   
      
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