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    The document discusses religion from the perspective of memes - ideas that propagate themselves through human culture. It asks questions about why people believe impossible religious ideas without questioning, how religious memes ensure their own survival through tricks like promoting large families, and the difference between religious and scientific memes. An example given of a religious meme is the story of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

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    The document discusses religion from the perspective of memes - ideas that propagate themselves through human culture. It asks questions about why people believe impossible religious ideas without questioning, how religious memes ensure their own survival through tricks like promoting large families, and the difference between religious and scientific memes. An example given of a religious meme is the story of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

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    RELIGION AS MEMEPLEXES

    1. Why millions of people´s behaviors are still controlled by ideas that are false or
    completely unstable?

    2. Can we get away from religions? Why?

    3. Explain the religion as a meme, why people believe in completely impossible


    things, without asking questions?

    4. Give one example of a Catholic meme.

    5. Do you consider that the born of Jesus Christ from a virgin (the Virgin Mary) is
    a meme? Why?

    6. What is the function of religion and ideologies?

    7. People could acquire power by association and not only through pass on their
    genes, please give an example of this.

    8. Promote religious people a more cooperative behavior and regulate violence


    and aggression? Why?

    9. Why does a young person believe that it is heroic to be killed in a religious


    war? Please give an example of this.

    10. Why do we say that In the past, religions that promoted large families were
    successful?

    11. Please explain the following sentence and give an example of this. “Religious
    memes can use all the best meme tricks in the book to ensure their own
    survival and reproduction.”

    12. What is the difference between science and religion memes?

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