Meme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Meme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "There is a tendency in memetics to disparage religious memes. However, some authorities speculate that traditional religions act as mental immune systems to suppress new memes that can be harmful. Interestingly, this can be compared with a virus (here a religion - a 'bundle' of religious memes) being ineffective if it kills its host. For example, popular Christianity forbids both murder and suicide (an idea from St. Augustine's City of God), and its precise definitions of heresy assure that new religions that advocate such actions cannot be accepted by educated Christians."