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What makes faith so powerful? How exactly does it weave its way into our political system? Why do people imagine and follow evident religious charlatans? Why is people profess profound faith even while they act in ways that betray that faith? Why is people blind to the irrationalities of the religion yet evidently see those of others? If these questions interest you, this booklet will provide you with the tools to comprehend religion and its vitality in you, your family as well as your culture. For thousands of years, faith has woven its way through societies and folks as if it were part and parcel to that world or person. In large solution it was still left unexplained and unchallenged, it simply been around. Those who attemptedto test and expose faith were often persecuted, excommunicated, shunned, or even carried out. It could be fatal to make clear that which the chapel, priest, or imam said was unexplainable. Before the germ, viral, and parasite theory of disease, medical professionals acquired no tools to comprehend disease and its propagation. Priests advised people disease was a result of sin, Satan, wicked spirits, etc. With the discovery of microbial actors, experts gained new tools to study how it spreads. They could review illness strategies, immunity, epidemiology and much more. Suddenly the horrible diseases of the past were understandable. The plagues of European countries, yellow fever, small pox, pneumonia, tuberculosis, syphilis, etc. were now taken off the divine and located squarely in the natural world. This booklet owes a great deal to Richard Dawkins' concept of viruses of your brain, but it seeks to visit a step further to individualize the idea of faith as a pathogen and show how these revolutionary ideas work in everyday life. The paradigm can make clear the fundamentalism of your Uncle Ned, the intimate behavior of a fallen megachurch minister, the kid rearing practices of a Pentecostal neighbor, why 19 men flew planes in to the World Trade Center, or what motivates a woman to blow herself up in the packed market segments of Baghdad. Learn how religion affects sexuality for its own purposes, how and why it helps to protect pedofile priests and wayward ministers and exactly how it uses survivor guilt to propagate and influence and how it could influence someone's IQ.
