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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Morgil wrote:   
   > John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >> Morgil wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> 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.   
   >   
   > It means that assuming the educated *Christians* actually   
   > *believe* in God and Jesus, they don't necessarily believe   
   > that Allah whom Muslims worship and God they worship are   
   > the same almighty divine being, even though Muslims say so.   
      
   In a somewhat similar case, Lewis remarks that, if we are rational, we   
   do not say, "John is not in love," when we mean, "John is in love with a   
   frightful woman."   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a   
   Marcus Aurelius is as naïve as the fear that ultimate power inevitably   
   corrupts."   
      -- James D. Barber (1930-2004)   
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