It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.