Re: virus: religion

Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:24:45 +0100


In message <199804140041.RAA09583@phix.com>, Corey Lindsly
<corey@phix.com> writes
>
>the virus is the life. the humans are just the mindless hosts.

The trouble with this is, if humans are just mindless hosts of
religious memes, then they're just mindless hosts of any and
every other meme too. Good memes versus bad memes is purely
value judgement. There's no objective way of deciding between
them. And just as religions are made up of memes, so is
atheism, and every other philosophy, including any that says
"humans are just mindless hosts".

-- 
Robin