Summary: For most of human existence, human societies were hunter gatherer societies. We survived through our ability to cooperate. That changed with the evolution of private property which was left to heirs. Controlling women ensured that only a man’s heirs could inherit his property. Just as early matriarchal religions provided the ideology of sharing and worship of women’s sexuality, patriarchal religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam created religious ideology that endorsed a male God and male suprema
