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Viruses of the Mind

Richard Dawkins May 23, 2009.

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Richard Dawkins offers the virus as a model for understanding religion.  Just like a virus is a self-replicating body of genetic information that infects host cells to spread copies of itself, religion is a self-replicating body of information that infects human minds and uses humans to spread copies of itself.