In college I took a course on the history of religion which focused on the so called three great religions. It was my first objective view of religion through a purely historical POV. What struck me was how the advent of montheism divided people who had been livng as neighbors up until that point. I always thought it patently unfair and still do as the people in that part of the world still pay the price in blood.
“A fool and his money are soon parted.” ~Thomas Tusser