You admit you are not a historian of culture, which is great and very humble of you.

Would you like to know what the historians of culture (like Tom Holland and Samuel moyn for example) and sociologists of religion like Rodney Stark attribute these changes to?

Christianity... specifically the book of Genesis which says God made man in His image. Male and female created HE them. We also see this in the American bill of rights that presuppose creation (all men are created equal) and a creator (inalienable rights endowed by their creator) in talking about equality of humanity and human rights.

So ironically, at the heart of your compassion for refugees and your presupposition of universal human equality, is Genesis, which is in the very Torah you started this conversion by saying "Good thing nobody bases their immigration laws on the Torah).