to one of the biggest twits among characters in French literature,

Monsieur Omey, Valtarian chemist in Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary.

He's discussing with another tweet, the vicar Bournizien, who asks whether Ome is a Christian or not.

Ome answers with a common cop-out.

You'll find that on your handout.

I admire Christianity.

It first sets the slaves free, introduced immoral into the world, and so on.

But the first fact, abolition of slavery, is desperately false.

The abolition may have been a consequence of the diffusion of Christian ideas, but it had to wait

for centuries to become effective. What of the second claim introducing into the world a morality?

Well, Christianity didn't introduce any new morality. To be precise, Christianity didn't introduce any new morality.

To be precise.

It didn't find any new commandment.

It could not do so in the first place.

To quote C.S. Lewis, the human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary color.

This is very well, but this presupposes something that we are hardly allowed to take for granted,

i.e. that rules are not commandments meant to distinguish people who abide

by them from other ones. There are the basic survival kit of mankind enabling both hominization

and humanization.

Little wonder that with Christianity, the Ten Commandments,

the so-called Decolon, remained there.

Now it is a matter of common knowledge that the equivalent of the rulings

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