I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chimp must fight ferociously to survive, including killing other chimpanzees

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.