From our perch, the difference might be basically nonexistent because of how far below us it is, but on a relative scale they are doing leagues better than things like African religions.

There is a reason why Arab nations actually have something resembling a culture, with its own clothes and architecture, while all the Africans are just mirrors of what the whites gave them when they aren't in literal pre-civilization mudhuts with straw diapers.

A Muslim might not make it to the moon, but he can form a pathetic form of a country and stumble forward for a time. A Voodoo shaman wouldn't even more it beyond caveman level without being forcefully uplifted.