Gee, look, evolution has brought us "self-protection" from people of other races - racism; protection from other genders - sexism; protection from foreigners - nationalism: protection from the unknown: fear; protection from total ignorance: education, science, maturity, 2500 years of politics, building, measuring, writing, reading, dealing with the human condition, and overcoming of "the human condition". Wars, hate, religion, stupidity, kings, dictators, Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and, somewhere in the mix, civilization, mates, houses, and diseases. Ain't it fun? And, "We shall overcome" all prejudice, all fear, all ignorance, and the overcoming started with "All men(and other human type creatures) are created equal", flawed, fallible, daring, adventurous, and - oh, yea, prejudiced. Some line from the African Queen, went "...and we were put here to overcome them". Religion has good targets, poor aim. We'll get over our humanity when evolution decides it's time to let science and logic to "really get into our head".
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