Ethnocentrism in Critical Scholarship

How should evangelicals evaluate this critical mindset that ancient religious beliefs evolved from lower forms of religion?

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The view that ancient religious beliefs reflect a lower evolutionary approach is basically ethnocentric. I mean, it comes from an era of racism and ethnocentrism that's found in a lot of other ways. You actually read the people who came up with the ideas, it's very degrading to other peoples.