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One meme common to many religious groups is to try to get people who aren't in the religion to obey its rules.  Working from the idea that a religious person thinks his or her religion is true, it's obvious that they'd think it's good to obey the rules. … more »

Since religions can't actually deliver on the promises of unreasonable bribes, they have to get around it somehow.  A very effective way to do that is to claim to make good on the promise only when or where nobody can verify it. The most common way to… more »

This is the first in a hopefully rather long series of posts on memes that some religions have in common.   One of the most common memes among religions is the unreasonable bribe.  By this I mean that if you do everything right, something good and… more »