text: once a religion meme has parasitised the mind of its host, a meme needs to propagate itself doesn't it?.? a successful religion meme will contain instructions for some or all of the following:  1: holy war - convert or kill all unbelievers . 2: intimidation and terrorism - threaten and discriminate against unbelievers. 3: enforced social isolation or even death to apostates. (an apostate is a host which has cured itself of a meme-infection. apostasy within the community of believers is especially dangerous to the meme because it might encourage meme-resistance in others). 4: fecundism - encourage true believers to breed faster than believers in false memes. 5: censorship - prevent rival memes from reaching potential hosts (a theological doctrine known as 'error has no rights'). 6:disinformation - spread lies about rival memes. demonise them - the bigger the lies the more likely they are to be believed. the disinformation may even include instructions for the meme to lie about itself! when you put it that way, you sound pretty convincing. i had always thought the urge to convert was done out of 'kindness', but perhaps it is one of the inevitable outcomes of following a meme.