&gt; the Abrahamic religions have only been in the ascendancy in the Mediterranean and Middle East for approximately 1500 years<p>Judaism transitioned to the form familiar to the current one 2500 years before now. Christianity became a state religion more than 1600 years before now, Islam started its conquests some 1300 years before now.<p>&gt; it would be a similar generalization to assume that Chinese thought has always stayed on the rails of Confucianism<p>And nobody claimed that. Just that all Chinese schools of thought weren&#x27;t so primitive as the Abrahamic ones. I quoted Confucianism and Taoism in my post.<p>That the Abrahamic ideologies managed to poison even Chinese territories isn&#x27;t anything to brag about, in my humble opinion.