XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:34:05 GMT, Paul S. Person   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:06:46 +0300, Morgil    
   >wrote:   
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   >   
   >>Now it goes without saying that there has always been   
   >>a lot of Christians of all type, who have claimed that   
   >>this description fits perfectly Mohammed. Of course we   
   >>can't be certain of how Lewis saw it, but when we put   
   >>together the Middle-Eastern air of Calormen, and the   
   >>false Christ/false prophet plotline, it does not seem   
   >>impossible that this is what he was aiming at.   
   >   
   >And even more who applied such descriptions to whoever they currently   
   >disagreed with.   
   >   
   >I once read (but did not inherit, sadly) a book in my grandfather's   
   >library which proudly proclaimed that the End of the World was nigh,   
   >that the proof was the Balkan Wars (these preceded World War I) and   
   >that the AntiChrist -- was the Ottoman Empire!   
      
   And there have been some in more recent times who have maintaned that the   
   Antichrist was Henry Kissinger or Gaddafi.   
      
      
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