for the first two thousand years we lived in absolute darkness – there was only a zero sum game – people literally ate each other – then came Abraham who not only figured out there is but one God desirous to do good he had enough love to share – this began the two thousand years of Torah – revealing an ethical monotheism – it embraced the entire world, for even those countries not defined by judeo-christian ethics have largely been influenced (perhaps the only outposts of savagery are the Arab and some Africans) but all this was only a build up to the current times in which man without being superimposed upon but from his own feeling, heart and soul, will discover a personal God