Friday, June 22, 2007

Aslan is Tash; Tash is Aslan


Why can't you understand that, you stupid beasts?

Catholics outside London cathedral protest concert of Allah names
Catholic Herald:

"Catholic traditionalists, including two priests, converged on Westminster Cathedral, London, to publicly protest the first ever performance of the Beautiful Names...(by Sir. John Tavener.)

"They claimed that a concert glorifying a religion which denies the divine nature of Jesus Christ should not be allowed to be staged in a Catholic place of worship...

The group included Fr. Tim Finigan... (yay!) and Fr. Michael Clifton, a retired priest from the Archdiocese of Southwark. Fr. Clifton said, 'A concert like this should never be put on in a Catholic church because it is music which belongs to a foreign, alien religion which is Islam. I have nothing against Islam as such, but this is not the place to do it. Allah is not a Christian god. Allah is not the triune God that Catholics believe in at all.'

"Sir John's brother Roger was on the Piazza to view the demonstration...he said, 'His intention is to bring all faiths together under one roof...We all worship the one God...I can't understand why there is a demonstration.'

Msgr Mark Langham, the administrator of the Cathedral defended the performance on the grounds that it is 'not a liturgical act of worship'. He said that in a discussion with Sir John it was 'agreed from the beginning that a work by a Catholic composer, Tomas Luis de Victoria- would be included in the programme, to emphasise that there is one God worshipped by Christians and Muslims.' Mgr Langham said, 'as the chief Catholic church in the country Westminster Cathedral mustn reflect the Church's concern to dialogue with those of other faiths.'"


The Ape jumped up and spat at the Lamb. .."Tash is only another name for Aslan. All that old idea of us being right and the Calmormenes wrong is silly. We know better now. The Calormenese use different words but we all mean the same thing. Tash and Aslan are only two different names for you know Who. That's why there can never be any quarrel between them. Get that into your heads, you stupid brutes. Tash is Aslan. Aslan is Tash."

[...]

"Excuse me," said the Cat very politely, "but this interests me. "Does your friend from Calormene say the same?"

"Assuredly,"" said the Calormene. "The enlightened Ape--Man, I mean--is in the right. Aslan means neither less nor more than Tash."

"Especially, Aslan means no more than Tash?" suggested the Cat.

"No more at all," said the Carormene, looking the Cat straight in the face.

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