[CondoleezzaProtege]

The two Alice books are held in much higher regard by Literary Scholars than Narnia. They are at the high end of Victorian Literary history. On the other hand, very few 20th century Lit scholars are enamored with the Narnia books.

I'm sure these same "scholars" also hold Nietzsche in higher regard than the Bible. At least Lewis communicated messages of transcendent worth and eternal significance.

[Borges]

We’re talking about literary worth not general ideas or moral instruction. For your information, no one denies the King James Bible as a standard of English Prose and Nietzsche in the original German is one of the great aphorists.