I wrote a new blog post about the secret of religion. The secret is of course
some kind of code - the religious genes or cultural memes or whatever you call
them. The cultural memes in holy books are used to build an entity in much the
same way as their biological counterparts, by gene expression. During church
service, the religious group or church community is regularly built by the
speech of the priest. It is like an expression of genes were the gened are
read, translated and then turned into proteins - here shared beliefs. The same
applies to political parties and their gatherings, i.e. party conventions,
where the party is built by the speech of the party high priest.
The code contained in holy books is used to built social groups. Did you know
that Jihad is much the same as Christian mission - a mechanism to gain new
members for the group? You see it is all about the group..
http://blog.cas-group.net/2014/10/god-and-the-group-the-secret-of-religion/
-J.
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