> I think one subtle point we seem to be missing here is the fact that most of
> these scientists have held the <God> meme since childhood. (Implanted with
> very little or no coercion, Eric. How many two year olds have pre-existing
> ideas about God which must be overcome to get them to go to sunday school?
> The coercion would not be aplicable until the teen years when they naturally
> begin to question all of their parents most friercly held memes, religious
> or not.)
I'm very pissed that Einstein wasn't an atheist. I guess that God was
playing dice when He put him in the theist camp.
> As memetists our interest should be with the facinating way in which this
> interial balancing act is carried out--realizing that it is something we all
> do with our pre-existing memes. (And recognizing that having the <Atheist>
> or any other meme spoon fed from your parents likewise effects ones future
> processing of new memes for a lifetime.)
Is atheism a meme or is it IMHO a refusal to accept a theist meme?
Is it fair to say that not believing in God is an ideology? I would
hate to think that I have to come up with a counter-meme every time
some crackpot dreams up a new god.
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