Ethical monotheism is probably the single greatest contributor to human progress
It's not "ethical monotheism" propping up civilization as can be seen by the "Florida effect" where people are far more likely to agree to being taxed to support local schools that share the same genes as them, while they resist being taxed to support what they consider foreign invader gene pools. It's simply the fact that they view people with the same genes as them as being possible relatives and treat them as such (a selfish gene type scenario) instead of killing or stealing from them.
We are very close now to the time when consciousness supersedes genetics. In a very primitively way we already screen out deadly genes.
See:
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: PGD
http://americanpregnancy.org/infertility/preimplantation-genetic-diagnosis/Sooner or later it will be possible to choose the skin color of your child and a variety of other things before conception.
Whether we are ready for this or not this technology is coming and any concept of race will die with it. The reality is that there is only one human race. It comes in a variety of phenotypes and the differences between these phenotypes do matter but will inevitably become less significant and ultimately trivial with time.