Part of the genius of C.S. Lewis, considered by many the leading advocate of Christianity in the twentieth century, was his penchant for looking at things in unexpected and new ways. In The Abolition of Man (Macmillan, 1947), he argues that those who want to replace Christian ethics have no case, because what was called Christian ethics in England was virtually the same human ethical system that existed in any humane society ever devised. He finds parallel ethics in New Testament, Old Testament, Hindu, Babylonian, Buddhist, American Indian, and other texts to make the point that ethical treatment of humankind and creation is a universal rather than sectarian human value.
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