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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 22:32:01 GMT
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religions are memes vying for dominance
in the minds of their hosts...

Todd, you might be interested in reading "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. It's
a slightly goofy cyberpunk novel that toys with the concept of religious memes.


Josh Spaulding
josh_spaulding@hotmail.com



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(...) The reason I'm interested in knowing what the 1st Commandment originally meant (or, more importantly, from an evolution-of-religion point of view, what it means to people nowadays) is because religions are memes vying for dominance in the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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