That is hilarious. They gave Christianity the selfish-gene treatment. I'll be embarrassed if this is a page from the book — I haven't actually read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

This kind of implies that this is the social engineering equivalent of worm-like malware in Cybersecurity.

That's curious.

Should have kept it in Latin...

Preach brother

Indeed - as a writer I find holy texts fascinating for their endurance through viral properties. It seems important for them to speak at once with ultimate authority but also a lot of vagueness to keep the messages versatile for as many situations as possible and as unfalsifiable as possible.

They are the equivalent of a radioactive meteor that lands on an unwitting planet and spreads a plague.

So, religious texts are basically just some kind of "mind virus"? But just not the kind one should be "woke" about?

What’s the name of that book?

Original chain email