I thought the secret to religoun was acknowledging the old gods for the low
low price of insanity. Azethoth and Yog will be pleased to know that it's
all about code.


On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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