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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:14:22 +0300, 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's like saying that they know that water is wet but don't necessarily   
   agree that it is.   
      
   >I could probably point out such people from this very newsgroup.   
      
   Lety them speak for themselves.   
      
      
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