Jesus has saved the world from the self-centered, brother-denying ethic witnessed in Cain—an ethic that viewed the helpless as undeserving of aid and unworthy of compassion. After all it was the followers of Jesus who pioneered such radical innovations as hospitals, orphanages, leprosariums, almshouses, relief for the poor, and public education. The idea that the world somehow or other would have arrived at an ethical worldview that could produce such charitable practices and institutions without Christ is an idea wholly lacking in any evidence.
