RE: religion/spirituality

From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) (D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 09:52:55 GMT

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From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
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Subject: RE: religion/spirituality
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:52:55 +0100
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    Derek:
    Surely,
    > if the viral model really applies to religions, somewhere
    in that vast time
    > span the requisite change would have taken place?
    >

    Matt:
    Perhaps that just means that the requisite change was to
    Christianity.

    Derek:
    But that would be more that just a change to prosetylization. What I'm
    asking is why there wasn't a religion that was identical to Judaism but
    simply added horizontal propagation. If religion is a virus, and if
    cultural change really does operate in an analogous way to genetic change,
    such a thing ought to appear, eventually.

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