From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" 

I like the equivalence between religion and disease....

gs

"Randall Parker"  wrote in message
news:MPG.13c99cb6faeffc9d98a856{at}news.barkto.com...
> Though there is a biological parallel for the idea that newer religious
> belief systems may be more dangerous than older ones: Diseases that have
> infected humanity for a longer time tend to (unless they spend part of
> their life cycles in other species) be selected to be less virulent.
> Newer religions may for similar reasons be more dangerous on average.
>
> In news:, d_n_b{at}swbell.net
> says...
> > Point well taken.   I do have a harder time dealing with religions
> > whose origins are recent.  Like, for example. Rastafarianism.  I
> > suppose this could count as MY irrational belief system, even though
> > I'm a devout agnostic.
> >

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