So, I'll ask you again: Can you think of any new insight gained from calling it the 'God meme' than we had when we called it the 'God concept?'freespirit
Meme theory focusus on the transmission mechanisms: The hooks that embed the meme in the brain. The concept being embedded is relatively unimportant. It is not necessary to know much about God to understand how the vuvuzelas get their version of God to become a strongly buttressed belief system in the brain. It works whether the God concept is God, Allah, YHVH, or Cthulhu.
The God concept is impossible to deal with rationally, as the characteristics of the concept must be defined before you can even talk about it. Most believers don't even know what the God they believe in is.
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