>A meme (/ˈmiːm/ MEEM)[1] is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture".[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.
If you treat religion as a meme, then how comes that the abrahamic memes are so successful? What makes them so special that they make it over thousands of years.
Is it because they because monotheistic faiths preach to have the only truth and everybody else is an enemy?
>>2084033
>Simple message
>Adversarial to other religions
>Advocates its spreads
Hell, you should not be treating all religion as a meme but abradhamic faiths as memes (although Gnosticism is rather memetic too but more syncretic in nature than adversarial)
>>2084078
I'm just trying to use meme theory on religion as religion fits the definition of a meme. And then the question remains what qualities makes some religions memes more prevalent than others.
>>2084092
>In her book The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore regards religions as particularly tenacious memes. Many of the features common to the most widely practiced religions provide built-in advantages in an evolutionary context, she writes. For example, religions that preach of the value of faith over evidence from everyday experience or reason inoculate societies against many of the most basic tools people commonly use to evaluate their ideas. By linking altruism with religious affiliation, religious memes can proliferate more quickly because people perceive that they can reap societal as well as personal rewards. The longevity of religious memes improves with their documentation in revered religious texts.[20]
>>2084078
Meme is just a term for an idea that keeps on reproducing. So it is a valid definition for religions.