Responding to an assertion having to do with the civilizing effects of one of the monotheistic religions on a remote indigenous people:

They were always human and will be always regardless of what they believe.

Monotheism has helped a large portion of the world simplify the relationship between the existence of the ego and of the cosmic and has freed energy to attend to better and other than mere survival.

Like the search for gold.

And slaves.

Forgive me for having been arch.

The post-Soviet Left goes perhaps too far with ditching religious mysticism, which includes the concept of a God.

Or gods.

We should not mind the imagination so much but rather the want of the destruction of it in myriad others.