In The Chronicles Of Narnia, C.S.Lewis uses the vehicle of a children's story to introduce readers to his concept of Christianity in a non-confrontational format. In the final book of the series, a battle is waged in a small thatched hut between the dark bird god of the Calormene people and the lion king of Narnia. A Calormene footsoldier and devout follower of the bird god is unable to control his passion and enters the hut to give aid in the battle. Once inside, he comes to find himself in another land, and eventually, stands before the lion king.

Bewildered at his circumstance, he asks the lion king how he, who spent his whole life in service to another, could end up in this place. The lion explained that the whole time the soldier had been praying to the bird god, he had actually been praying to the lion king. The bird god was no more capable of accepting praise than the lion king was of accepting a curse. Both praise and scorn reach their proper destination. Buddha posited a corollary to this at his Sermon at Benares: If you try to spit at the heavens, the spit just falls on you. Everything goes to its proper place.

In this profoundly hopeful and inclusive message, Lewis seems to be saying that the righteousness of your dedication to a life of humble service to ANY god will be sufficient once the time of reckoning comes.

It has been said that trying to grasp any aspect of God is like trying to grasp an ocean with the thimble of our minds. I believe that this same fundamental incomprehensibility provides the basis for the panoply of religions. It is so beyond man's capacity to truly accept and embrace something as large as a brotherhood of man that it becomes inevitable that we embrace the lesser view that only a small segment of people, regardless of their divine origin, will have access to God.