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A religion is just a meme that people take seriously.
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In the original Dawkins sense of the word, this is explicitly so. Strictly speaking, memes are just ideas that use us to replicate. A worldview is an idea. Pogrom ergo sum, so to speak.
There is a neat video from CGP Grey that discusses the infectious transmission of thoughts: Achoo!