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Old 10-29-2010, 03:59 AM   #13
ZenGum
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Fresh, you might want to think of it in terms of memes.
See Wiki, especially the part about religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Simply put, many ideas, especially religions, are mind viruses that spread from one victim to another, and take control of the new victim's brain and cause them to try to spread the virus further. Religion-memes are especially good at doing this.
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