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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Morgil wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   That doesn't even make sense.   
      
   > I could probably point out such people from this very newsgroup.   
      
   You could probably find Moon-landing deniers, too. Nevertheless,   
   educated Christians, and Lewis in particular, still know that Islam   
   believes in the same God that Jews and Christians do.   
      
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