“[People apart from Christ being savages] is nonsense.”
Really? Can you point me to some example of people who have rejected Christ but are not savages? Can you point me to a group of people who are ignorant of Christ that are not savages?
Israel. Modern Japan. Thailand. Taiwan.
You can make a lot of generalizations about these countries, but to describe them as being a bunch of "savages" is absurd.
‘Can you point me to some example of people who have rejected Christ but are not savages?’
sorry again; however, you posited the assertion, it is up to you to furnish the backup...
but I’ll play along; are you seriously asserting that the entire population of agnostics, skeptics, and assorted freethinkers are cultural misfits, brutes, killers, thugs, in the mold of, say, brainwashed Muslims...? or further, are you implying that today’s practicing Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Shintoists, and for that matter everyone who had ever existed prior to the appearance of Christ in the what we record as the first century AD, are each and everyone nothing but a bunch of reprobates, apart as they are from the belief of Christ as divinity...?