Vaccination Will Not Cure the Genetic/Infectious Disease of Religion

                                      Vaccination Will Not Cure the Genetic/Infectious Disease of Religion

I understand vaccine as a disabled virus; to give a more meaningful explanation, a vaccine stimulates immunity to a particular pathogen. It is perhaps better to understand a vaccine from what it cannot do: it cannot be used against common cold, caused by a plethora of pathogens that mutate frequently.

With that out of the way, I think religion is more like common cold than any serious pathogen! There was one man who thought he found a vaccine which he used it to great positive effect on himself.

That was The Buddha. It, Buddhism, lasted for a few centuries perhaps, at least somewhat effectively and then, it lost its effectiveness. Yet, before that, the vaccine had spread itself quite far.

Then, came the death-defining transformation, the vaccine became a disease. How else would you define the violence in Sri Lanka (Religion co-opted by politics) and Myanmar, where it is the Buddhists who cause violence? As far as I know there is minimal violence in Tibet, but none can say when it becomes more than minimal.

The virus of religion cannot be extirpated.

Raghuram Ekambaram