Religion as a Virus and Epicurus’ Remedies  Mirroring a recent
blog post.   Those of us that grew up under the ideological yolk
of the God of the Bible had to contend with a Janus that was
said to be both a loving Heavenly Father whom Jesus imagined
feeding the birds daily … and a wrathful, jealous, mad sociopath
who ordered the Jews to commit genocide in order to occupy other
peoples’ lands and carried out an extermination plan that lasted
centuries in Canaan.  They could not possibly be one and the
same person, but then again, there is no agent, no person, other
than the human agents who had the political and military agendas
in the Old Testament, and the agenda to try to fix the shameful
ancestral crimes of religion in the new one.  I was initially
amused when I first read Richard Dawkins’ reference to religion
as a virus.  I believe it was in his The God Delusion that I
first found the idea, but then found out that Craig A. James had
fully fleshed out the notion in his The Religion Virus.  The
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