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   Derek Broughton (news@pointerstop.ca) wrote:   
      
   > I agree with John that since Islam _does_ say Allah is the same   
   > God as the God of the Jews & Christians, then it must be so.  Just   
   > as Christians say they worship the same God as the God of Judaism.   
      
   (By the way, I wonder if we're boring the good folks of   
   rec.arts.books.tolkien and alt.books.inklings. I recall the original   
   poster saying he couldn't get replies via alt.books.cs-lewis and so   
   wanted the follow-ups to the other groups preserved. But this   
   discussion has taken us perhaps in a direction that is no longer on-   
   topic in those other groups.)   
      
   Anyway, I don't agree with that. Let me see if I can locate the point   
   of our disagreement. Suppose a man comes up to you and says, "The God   
   I worship is the God who appeared to Abraham. She later revealed   
   herself as Semiramis to the Assyrians and the Virgin Mary. Some have   
   worshiped this God under the name 'Lucifer' (whom others have wrongly   
   claimed to be in opposition to the God of Abraham). There are other   
   names and manifestations as well."   
      
   Since that man _does_ say the God he worships is the same God as the   
   God of the Jews & Christians, must it be so? My answer, obviously, is   
   no. It's a massive fallacy of equivocation.   
      
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   Bill Baldwin   
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