Civilization is from the Jews

What’s also certain, moreover, is that the violence of the kind described in Midrash was standard practice in pagan societies, as was ritualized torture of every conceivable kind, human sacrifice, and cannibalism. The myth of ‘the noble savage’ somehow survives despite the mounting evidence. In truth, there is nothing noble in our origins, only savagery, and the primary reason few of us have encountered such savagery is the spread of the Abrahamic religions.