This ain't about religion, unless we're counting cultural frames of references as religions. Actually, you know what, I'm on board. Let's do this.
Europeans worship Mammon, the ur-god of greed. Mammon is a god worshipped in the secret corners of one's mind, not worshipped consciously. Europeans design their technology after chasing plenty. Their agriculture sucks minerals from the earth, creating food to feed huge populations, even at the expense of personal welfare and health. Europeans are miserable, but there are so many of them, and they have so much.
Aboriginal people worship the Rainbow Serpent, and very consciously. The Rainbow Serpent is a shaper of landscapes. It slithered along the ground, digging riverbeds with its tail, to create a home for people. Aboriginal religion is about quality of life, and connectedness with ecosystems. Aboriginal technology shapes the land to make labour easy, using deep ecological knowledge to understand the consequences. Before colonisation, most Aboriginal people only needed to work a few hours a day. They spent the rest of their time discussing philosophy and furthering the arts.
Now, which of these two philosophies of life, technology, and civilisational organisation do you think is better at killing people?
And furthermore, is killing people the point of... you know, all this? Are we "advancing" if we get better at genocide?

