I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.
The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.