The Christian Meme: A Viral Infection Of The Mind

[guno]

The mind virus of religious belief preys on fear, warps instinctive attributes and skews morality. It contradicts responsible behavior, reason and compassion. It retards free will and causes a lack of ability to differentiate between rational and irrational choices. It allows the religionist to exist in a perfectly rational way in many other aspects of their existence in society while the infected area of the mind is stuck in a cyclical delusion.

A virus will attack the most vulnerable area of its host. In society, that area lies within our youth – particularly very young children. This is why there exist so many youth-driven activities within the church. These activities appeal to the societal desires of children to learn through enjoyable experiences. Sunday school lessons for very young children are modeled after kindergarten and primary school. For the older children there are sports camps and field trips. The entirety of the Contemporary Christian Music genre is designed to mirror modern and post-modern secular music. This is adaptation.

When children are not fully educated, they are unable to comprehend the reason and logic behind what they are told. Through evolution, human children are predisposed to adhere to the authority of an adult. This is why the structure of the ‘one teacher – multiple student’ education system continues to succeed in spite of the higher level of retention of a ‘one-on-one’ educational environment.

All of this makes children very easy to infect.

The Christian Meme A Viral Infection of the Mind 8211 Understanding Other Cultures - My Telegraph

 

[martybegan]

Nothing better than most asshole atheist posts. Smug self satisfaction, false appeals to logic and reason, and the usual snide insults directed at people of faith.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Homeschooling
Question:
How many children are homeschooled in the United States?

Response:
Homeschooled students are school-age children (ages 5–17) in a grade equivalent to at least kindergarten and not higher than 12th grade who receive instruction at home instead of at a public or private school either all or most of the time.

Approximately 3 percent of the school-age population was homeschooled in the 2011–12 school year. Among children who were homeschooled, a higher percentage were White (68 percent) than Black (8 percent), Hispanic (15 percent), or Asian or Pacific Islander (4 percent).

Parents gave a number of different reasons for homeschooling their children. In the 2011–12 school year, 91 percent of homeschooled students had parents who said that a concern about the environment of other schools was an important reason for homeschooling their child, which was a higher percentage than other reasons listed.

Fast Facts


SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2013). Parent and Family Involvement in Education, From the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012 (NCES 2013-028); and U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2009). The Condition of Education 2009 (NCES 2009-081), Indicator 6.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The vicious social conservative and the vicious atheist have little to offer of worth on this subject.

 

[martybegan]

The vicious social conservative and the vicious atheist have little to offer of worth on this subject.

Who is a social conservative?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Nothing better than most asshole atheist posts. Smug self satisfaction, false appeals to logic and reason, and the usual snide insults directed at people of faith.

We have far right conservatives and libertarian atheists as well, marty.

And I agree they are as ignorant and mean spirited as some of our religionists on the far right.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Social conservatives are right wing progressives.

social conservative
one who believes in principle in genera lgovernment regulation of people's personal freedom, often as a result of their religious beliefs

Social conservatives tend to be against abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, physician assisted suicide, gun control and affirmative action and for prayer in public schools, capital punishment and supporting Israel.

Urban Dictionary social conservative

 

[guno]

The mind virus of religious belief preys on fear, warps instinctive attributes and skews morality. It contradicts responsible behavior, reason and compassion. It retards free will and causes a lack of ability to differentiate between rational and irrational choices. It allows the religionist to exist in a perfectly rational way in many other aspects of their existence in society while the infected area of the mind is stuck in a cyclical delusion.

A virus will attack the most vulnerable area of its host. In society, that area lies within our youth – particularly very young children. This is why there exist so many youth-driven activities within the church. These activities appeal to the societal desires of children to learn through enjoyable experiences. Sunday school lessons for very young children are modeled after kindergarten and primary school. For the older children there are sports camps and field trips. The entirety of the Contemporary Christian Music genre is designed to mirror modern and post-modern secular music. This is adaptation.

When children are not fully educated, they are unable to comprehend the reason and logic behind what they are told. Through evolution, human children are predisposed to adhere to the authority of an adult. This is why the structure of the ‘one teacher – multiple student’ education system continues to succeed in spite of the higher level of retention of a ‘one-on-one’ educational environment.

All of this makes children very easy to infect.

The Christian Meme A Viral Infection of the Mind 8211 Understanding Other Cultures - My Telegraph

"A human child is shaped by evolution to soak up the culture of her people. Most obviously, she learns the essentials of their language in a matter of months. A large dictionary of words to speak, an encyclopedia of information to speak about, complicated syntactic and semantic rules to order the speaking, are all transferred from older brains into hers well before she reaches half her adult size. When you are pre-programmed to absorb useful information at a high rate, it is hard to shut out pernicious or damaging information at the same time. With so many mindbytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort."

Dr. Dawkins compares the virus of Christianity (Islam) to a computer virus, stating that,

“successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won’t know it, and may even vigorously deny it.”
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[martybegan]

Social conservatives are right wing progressives.

social conservative
one who believes in principle in genera lgovernment regulation of people's personal freedom, often as a result of their religious beliefs

Social conservatives tend to be against abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, physician assisted suicide, gun control and affirmative action and for prayer in public schools, capital punishment and supporting Israel.

Urban Dictionary social conservative

Are you referring to me as a social conservative?

 

[guno]

The vicious social conservative and the vicious atheist have little to offer of worth on this subject.

The purpose of a virus is self-propagation. When an idea enters meme stage, it becomes self-propagating by acting as a cancer among healthy cells, eating away until all that is left is diseased and dead. True enough that a virus is the means to its own end because eventually it dies out, but what is left in its wake is disastrous. Of course, Christianity is not a living being, but it is a living entity, i.e., its self replicating nature. It has the same properties that a virus has via it’s attribute to use modes that improve it’s chances for survival.



One of these modes relies on the direct link between a person’s beliefs and their behavior. This gives it the ability to control the behavior of entire societies. It is an idea that has taken on many of the properties of a living organism. It is complex and adaptive. It has infected the believer’s ability to comprehend the difference between perceived and actual behavior. It preys on fear, warps instinctive attributes and skews morality. It contradicts responsible behavior, reason and compassion. It retards free will and causes a lack of ability to differentiate between rational and irrational choices. It infects other areas of the mind, causing the believer to exist in a perfectly rational way in many other aspects of their existence in society while the infected area of the mind is stuck in a cyclical delusion.

 

[martybegan]

You know you should be referencing who you stole this from in every post. Nice plagiarism.

 

[guno]

The vicious social conservative and the vicious atheist have little to offer of worth on this subject.

The purpose of a virus is self-propagation. When an idea enters meme stage, it becomes self-propagating by acting as a cancer among healthy cells, eating away until all that is left is diseased and dead. True enough that a virus is the means to its own end because eventually it dies out, but what is left in its wake is disastrous. Of course, Christianity is not a living being, but it is a living entity, i.e., its self replicating nature. It has the same properties that a virus has via it’s attribute to use modes that improve it’s chances for survival.



One of these modes relies on the direct link between a person’s beliefs and their behavior. This gives it the ability to control the behavior of entire societies. It is an idea that has taken on many of the properties of a living organism. It is complex and adaptive. It has infected the believer’s ability to comprehend the difference between perceived and actual behavior. It preys on fear, warps instinctive attributes and skews morality. It contradicts responsible behavior, reason and compassion. It retards free will and causes a lack of ability to differentiate between rational and irrational choices. It infects other areas of the mind, causing the believer to exist in a perfectly rational way in many other aspects of their existence in society while the infected area of the mind is stuck in a cyclical delusion.

It is my hope that one day reason, logic and rationality will prevail and the infection that our society suffers due to the virus known as Christianity will be eradicated from our society and be put in its rightful place as mythological fiction along with the Greco-Roman gods of the past.

It is only through minds that have been freed of superstition, fear and irrational beliefs in non-existent deities and mythological saviors that our society will achieve its potential

 

[martybegan]

The vicious social conservative and the vicious atheist have little to offer of worth on this subject.

The purpose of a virus is self-propagation. When an idea enters meme stage, it becomes self-propagating by acting as a cancer among healthy cells, eating away until all that is left is diseased and dead. True enough that a virus is the means to its own end because eventually it dies out, but what is left in its wake is disastrous. Of course, Christianity is not a living being, but it is a living entity, i.e., its self replicating nature. It has the same properties that a virus has via it’s attribute to use modes that improve it’s chances for survival.



One of these modes relies on the direct link between a person’s beliefs and their behavior. This gives it the ability to control the behavior of entire societies. It is an idea that has taken on many of the properties of a living organism. It is complex and adaptive. It has infected the believer’s ability to comprehend the difference between perceived and actual behavior. It preys on fear, warps instinctive attributes and skews morality. It contradicts responsible behavior, reason and compassion. It retards free will and causes a lack of ability to differentiate between rational and irrational choices. It infects other areas of the mind, causing the believer to exist in a perfectly rational way in many other aspects of their existence in society while the infected area of the mind is stuck in a cyclical delusion.

It is my hope that one day reason, logic and rationality will prevail and the infection that our society suffers due to the virus known as Christianity will be eradicated from our society and be put in its rightful place as mythological fiction along with the Greco-Roman gods of the past.

It is only through minds that have been freed of superstition, fear and irrational beliefs in non-existent deities and mythological saviors that our society will achieve its potential

Jesus, what an Asshole.

 

[Unkotare]

Another troll thread from batshit boy, vying for top spot among the filthy bigots and racists around here.

 

[PratchettFan]

The mind virus of religious belief preys on fear, warps instinctive attributes and skews morality. It contradicts responsible behavior, reason and compassion. It retards free will and causes a lack of ability to differentiate between rational and irrational choices. It allows the religionist to exist in a perfectly rational way in many other aspects of their existence in society while the infected area of the mind is stuck in a cyclical delusion.

A virus will attack the most vulnerable area of its host. In society, that area lies within our youth – particularly very young children. This is why there exist so many youth-driven activities within the church. These activities appeal to the societal desires of children to learn through enjoyable experiences. Sunday school lessons for very young children are modeled after kindergarten and primary school. For the older children there are sports camps and field trips. The entirety of the Contemporary Christian Music genre is designed to mirror modern and post-modern secular music. This is adaptation.

When children are not fully educated, they are unable to comprehend the reason and logic behind what they are told. Through evolution, human children are predisposed to adhere to the authority of an adult. This is why the structure of the ‘one teacher – multiple student’ education system continues to succeed in spite of the higher level of retention of a ‘one-on-one’ educational environment.

All of this makes children very easy to infect.

The Christian Meme A Viral Infection of the Mind 8211 Understanding Other Cultures - My Telegraph

Christianity is no different than all other religions. Human beings are, by nature, believers. I would point out that your post is also just an expression of belief, no different than the beliefs of Christians. It really just boils down to the same old song, "They don't believe what I believe so there must be something wrong with them." Welcome to the human race.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The quote, "The purpose of a virus is self-propagation," can apply to the infestation of radical atheism and reactionary social conservatism and Islamic jhadism and stalinism and hitlerism. All are human infections that weaken the speciies.

 

[sameech]

There would be no need to teach literature in an atheist society. In a world of life without purpose, literature would be pointless, yet I have never heard a secular humanist advocate for closing that backdoor. Wonder why?

 

[PratchettFan]

There would be no need to teach literature in an atheist society. In a world of life without purpose, literature would be pointless, yet I have never heard a secular humanist advocate for closing that backdoor. Wonder why?

Perhaps because it's not true.

 

[sameech]

There would be no need to teach literature in an atheist society. In a world of life without purpose, literature would be pointless, yet I have never heard a secular humanist advocate for closing that backdoor. Wonder why?

Perhaps because it's not true.

So atheists support teaching literature because it is not true. Is there anything else they espouse that isn't true as well?

 

[PratchettFan]

There would be no need to teach literature in an atheist society. In a world of life without purpose, literature would be pointless, yet I have never heard a secular humanist advocate for closing that backdoor. Wonder why?

Perhaps because it's not true.

So atheists support teaching literature because it is not true. Is there anything else they espouse that isn't true as well?

No, what you said is not true.