Is religion just a virus of language? >Once you hear it,

If youre a retarded atheist and not even agnostic maybe.

Without religion there would be no civilization you understand that?

>>3250967
>Without religion there would be no civilization you understand that?
How does this refute my hypothesis? It's an unrelated topic Some viruses can be accidentally helpful

>>3250967
False. We'd have more existential crises and use of escapism to get away from said crises though.

>>3250963
>>Once you believe it it, you're compelled to tell other people to save them from not hearing it because it tells you to
>>Once you believe it, you're compelled to continue trying to engrave it stronger and stronger into your mind under the guise of devotion and prayer because it tells you to
>because it tells you to
Not all beliefs come bundled with their spreading dogma. True, the ones that don't didn't achieve the same status as the ones that do for obvious reasons but they exist.
You'll also notice some of thoses beliefs without a spreading dogma lack a concept of afterlife.

That's what religion is: a belief with a spreading dogma, a carrot, a stick and a clergy attached.

>>3250963

Not all religions no, Something like a native American religion doesn't fit this, or Jainism, or Daoism.

It fits christianity and islam to a T though, but they have more in common with a political ideology than a spirituality.

>>3250963
Ah, yes, Dawkins's unscientific meme theory, with his same ass shit arguments that he applied to religion.

How original, OP.

Besides, it's utterly retarded.
In that case, EVERY fucking idea is a virus, and the same old question of what is the difference between a worldview and a religion remains.

Yes, i know the fag was a pretty good biologist(though stubborn as fuck regarding his ideas) and when all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail, but i wish he stopped doing bacteriopomorphism on everything.

>Genes are like rapacious microbes;
>Incorporeal Ideas are like rapacious microbes;
>Internet memes(ironically) are like rapacious microbes;
etc.

>>3251066
>That's what religion is: a belief with a spreading dogma, a carrot, a stick and a clergy attached.
What?
A lot of religions don't have one to all of those things.

>>3250963
I believe most the most influential religions began as philosophical preachings and motivational fairy tails but the texts were cultivated into instruments of war to keep the masses in fear and obedient to the powers at be

>>3250967
For the most part, religion has hindered scientific discover (and in essence still does to this day); without religion civilisation would be more advanced and the planet wouldn't be as ravished as it is today.

That being said a lot of art and literature has been influenced by religion so I suppose the lack of religion would also have made our societies emotionally colder

>>3251081
Beliefs, not religions.

>>3251106
Is Islam not a religion?
Is Hinduism not a religion?
Because those lack atleast part of what you say.

And that's just stuff western fedoras can't bs into "well, it's a bhilosofy, not a religion:-DDD"

>>3251101
t. edgy teenager atheist

>>3251116
Islam has a spreading dogma, a carrot, a stick and a clergy.
Hinduism has a carrot, a stick and a clergy what the fuck are you going on about?

>>3251132
Islam does not have clergy.
Hinduism doesn't have a spreading or unified dogma.

>>3251140
>islam doesn't have a clergy
what are imams

>>3250963
WIND BLOWS

>>3251144
prayer leaders.
They dont have a priestly role.
It's a pretty big thing in Islam.

Religion as a singular concept is uniquely semitic.

Judaism considers itself the ONLY God-given religion.
Christianity considers itself the ONLY God-given religion.
Islam considers itself the ONLY God-given religion.

Notice the pattern?