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I found the dicussion in "red" on another website and found it to be interesting. I personally believe in God and do not seek to find any alternate evolutionary explanations or what have you, to why we exist.. How do you all feel about whats being dicussed below?


Richard Dawkins proposed the idea that religion is a memetic virus -- that is, a virus of the brain. Clearly you and I are capable of spreading our ideas to one another. Many of the ideas I have would not spread very far because people may be resistant to them for whatever reason. These "memes" may be unsuccessful because they require the presence of certain other memes or idea to be successful, such as a grasp of logic or the ability to be intellectually honest.

Religion, on the other hand, is an idea that spreads easily because it is custom-tailored to do so. Humans are psychologically pre-disposed to wanting the safety, comfort, and promise of ever-lasting life that religion brings. Evolution has assured us that much. Furthermore, most humans are exposed to this idea at a very young and impressionable age, when the immune system of logic and reason is not yet fuly formed. As a result, religion is an idea that just about everyone picks up (and believes) at some point.

So, is religion is a disease of the brain? Is reason the cure? [code:1:5704c3d19c][/code:1:5704c3d19c]