Some Ideas for Our New Memetically Engineered Religion

Purely memeplex survival-based:

• Promote evidence-free faith as a virtue.
• Threaten with penalties for unbelief.
• Offer perks for belief.

Memeplex survival and transmission through genetic survival:

• Tell believers to go forth and multiply.
• Tell believers to treat women as breeding machines and convince women to accept it.
• Oppose contraception and abortion.
  
• Indoctrinate children early on.
• Order them to behave well in society and preserve order as long as it serves the memeplex.
• It is okay to kill unbelievers, but do not provoke wars that you cannot win.

Horizontal memeplex transmission:

• Enjoin them to preach the true faith.
• Attribute good deeds to the memeplex.

Maintaining memeplex transmission fidelity:

• Maintain a priestly class who will preserve the integrity of the memeplex out of self-interest.
• Create an inquisition.

Risky/dangerous memeplex traits:

• Attempt to explain the world by integrating known science (risky--since it may threaten to tear the memeplex apart when new empirical evidence comes along).
• Integrate cultural practices for better acceptance and familiarity from the believers, and to provide a distinct identity at the risk of endangering horizontal transmission.

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(edited: 22/05/2010)