Archaeologists digging around have found evidence of some form of human sacrifice/cannibalism in centuries past just about everywhere on the planet-since China guards their archaeological finds so carefully, we really don’t know if that stuff went on there-but I’ll bet real money that it did-humans were not gentle or nice in centuries past-we still aren’t-we allow the sacrifice of unborn humans to a woman’s “right to choose”-even though there is no famine from a drought , towns are not being pillaged and burned, women raped and slaughtered-but in some states the murder of an unwanted newborn can be approved by the “mother”...
Being Hispanic/Latino most of my ancestry is Spanish-but in the 400 or so years since those ancestors got on a ship and fled Spain, they weren’t shy about interbreeding/marrying with Native American women, from tribes in Mexico to the Apaches in Mexico, Texas and New Mexico when it was all Spanish territory-they were just working class ranchers and herders, free to partner with any woman they liked.
I don’t think either my Spanish ancestors or the Native ones were kind, caring or peaceful-they were equally savage, but the ones from Spain had more polished methods of torture and justified it all in the name of the Inquisition-but I don’t think Jesus had torture in mind as a tool to win converts...
Native Americans taught the Spanish some torture methods, Spanish taught some torture methods to the Natives-everybody burned, scalped and beheaded each other, and the Karankawas on the Texas coast were practicing cannibalism into the early 1800’s-none of that sounds civilized to me-I can’t imagine that level of cruelty-I don’t even have the urge to burn a few witches...
While the Romans had definite ideas on how to try to keep the peace!