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Dualistic religions espouse the existence of two opposing powers good and evil. Keep in mind this was 500 years ago. Unlike monotheism, dualism believes that evil is an independent power, neither created by the good God, nor subordinate to it. Dualism explains that the entire universe is a battleground between these two forces, and that everything that happens in the world is part of the struggle.

Dualistic religions espouse the existence of two opposing powers good and evil. Keep in mind this was 500 years ago. Unlike monotheism, dualism believes that evil is an independent power, neither created by the good God, nor subordinate to it. Dualism explains that the entire universe is a battleground between these two forces, and that everything that happens in the world is part of the struggle.

The first monotheist religion known to us appeared in Egypt, c.350 BC, when Pharaoh Akhenaten declared that one of the minor deities of the Egyptian pantheon, the god Aten. Aten was the president of the universe. Akhenaten institutionalized the worship of Aten as the state religion and tried to check the worship of all other gods.

Sapiens don’t like to say that they keep slaves of a certain race or origin simply because it’s economically expedient. Not even a hundred years ago, Biologists argued that blacks are less intelligent than whites. Doctors alleged that blacks live in filth and spread diseases. In other words, they are a source of pollution. Pollution? Sapiens should not be called pollution. Pollution is filth. Sapiens are not filth!

If money was all that mattered, the divide between the races should soon have blurred, not least through intermarriage. But, that did not happen. At all! By 1865 whites, as well as many blacks, took it to be a simple matter that fact that blacks were less intelligent. Violent and sexually dissolute. Lazier! Less concerned about personal hygiene. Nonsense! Just look at Obama! We're all living breathing sapiens.

Homo sapiens, a human species on planet earth. Wiping out the Neanderthals and Homo Erectus, Sapiens won. Won! Beginning in the middle of the food chain, Sapiens jumped all the way to "prime predator" faster than a frog catches a bug with its tongue. "Sapiens" takes us through the fire, farming, money and science steps of human evolution. You must read this book! It doesn't matter how much you know. It's a good read!