Non-Monotheists in East Asia
Mencius, one of the greatest ancient Chinese philosophers, said: "Ancient sacred kings had a mind not to neglect unhappiness of others, so that they took the helm of the state in sympathy for those unhappy people."
Mencius, in this way, taught that if politicians administered a nation with such sympathy for unhappy citizens, the nation would be easily governed.
And he pointed out that anybody would try to help and pull out a boy if he saw the boy falling into a well. "It is not from a desire to be respected by others, thanked by the boy's parents, or show his strength for a man to help and pull out the boy falling into a well, but it is from inevitable sympathy to others. A man without this kind of sympathy is not a member of humanity at all."
Remember that in the east of the Indus River, monotheistic religion has not been established. In other word, the sole commander of the Universe, the God Almighty, has not appeared to those who live in the east of the Indus River except to those who live in Indonesia.
So, we may learn how ethic evolved in East Asia by observing teachings by ancient Chinese or Indian philosophers, since China and India were the two of main sources of civilization.
The understanding that a man has inherently such sympathy in his mind is a key to managing materially developed society if in the ancient world. Human civilization can develop well if it is good for humanity. If everybody admits that civilization is good for all, it can be developed and sustained. Otherwise, some people who are unhappy but not sympathized by others in a social framework of civilized society would turn to be serious insurgents and try to destroy the society or the civilization itself.
But this concept or idea, including the understanding of inherent ability to sympathize the others, was neither from the Holy Books nor from Angles the God Almighty sent to human beings. Even without traditions of monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, East Asians could establish wide and deep ethical theories owing to such ancient philosophers as the Buddha, Confucius, and Mencius.
In other world, Europeans and Muslims could only learn the deep theories of good and bad through help from the God Almighty, but East Asians achieved the higher level of moral standards with their own efforts as human beings, since the God Almighty had given such ability to all the members of mankind beforehand.
Therefore, though some shallow Europeans and Muslims laugh at Indians, Chinese, and Japanese as they don't believe in the sole God in the universe, East Asians look greater than those Europeans and Muslims, since they established ethical value and moral views equal to those the God gave to Judaists, Christians, and Muslims.
So, the God Almighty created the two worlds in the human sphere: One where He appeared to people to directly teach the distinction between good and bad and another where He hid himself in a diversity of the nature and culture to have people find such distinction all by themselves. And only foolish Judaists, Christians, and Muslims are laughing at monotheists in East Asia who are greater than those fools in theory.
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Mar 7:30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.