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Galileo,
12
,
215
Gandhi, Mohandas,
230
Gehring, Jakob,
151
German Baptists,
31
God virus.

See also
Virus as metaphor for religion
Graham, Billy,
108
,
140
Guilt,
29
,
84-97
,
103
,
108
,
112
,
113
,
142
,
202-203
      cycle of,
87-90
      survivor’s guilt,
190-191
      two kinds of,
90-91

Hagee, James,
156
,
178-179
Haggard, Ted,
114
,
152
,
178-179
,
181
Hancock, Butch,
99
Hare Krishna,
54
Harris, Sam,
178
Hatred,
14
,
15
Heresy,
36-38
Hinduism,
38
,
39
,
69
,
73
,
101
,
102
,
146
Hinn, Binny,
128
Hippocrates,
209
Hitchens, Christopher,
64
Hitler,
71
,
130
Hobbes,
61
Hubbard, L. Ron,
213
Huckabee, Mike,
61
Huguenots,
31
,
40
Huss, John,
48
Hutterites,
31
Hybels, Bill,
142

Il-sung, Kim,
52
Imprinting,
24
Infection process,
169-170
Ingersoll, Robert,
28
,
62
,
72
,
79
,
126
Inhibitions/prohibitions,
27-28
Inquisition,
39-40
Intelligent design,
208
,
231
Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
20
Islam,
38
,
41-42
,
43-44
,
49
,
73

Jefferson, Thomas,
71
,
73
,
74
,
138
Jeffs, Warren,
111
Jehovah’s Witnesses,
32
,
52
,
53
,
54
,
102
,
140
,
185
Jenner, Edward,
26
Jesuits,
39
Jones, Bob,
64
Jones, Jim,
111
Judaism,
42
,
59

Kamikaze,
36
Kansas Republican Party,
72
Kaufman, Tomas,
151
Keller, Helen,
133
Kennedy, D. James,
233
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhaollah,
233
King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
64
,
230
King, Stephen,
176
Kissinger, Henry,
111
Knowles, F.M.,
175
Kübler-Ross, Elizabeth,
202

Lenin, cult of,
28
,
49
,
52
,
71
Lorenz, Konrad,
24
Luther, Martin,
31
,
39
,
48
,
88
,
137
,
229

Madison, James,
63
Madonna,
110
Maher, Bill,
178
Manifest destiny,
63
Marx, Karl,
13
,
222
Marxism,
48-49
,
51
,
52
,
66
Masters and Johnson,
85
Masturbation,
84
,
85
,
91
McCarthy, Joseph,
66
,
67
,
70-71
McKinney, Carlespie Mary Alice,
43
McPherson, Aimee Semple,
140
Mega churches,
141-159
Mencken, H. L.,
120
,
123
,
202
,
227
Mennonites,
31
Metallica,
75
Meta virus,
152-155
Meta-religion.

See also
Civil religion
Methodist,
142
,
153
Milgram, Stanley,
166-167
Moon, Sun Myung. See Moonies
Moonies,
53
,
54
Moral leadership,
230
Moral Majority,
67
,
68
,
73
,
81
Morality vs. values,
118-119
non-theists and,
128-131
Morecraft, Rev. Joseph,
233
Mormon Church, control,
41
,
43
Mormonism,
32
,
40
,
41
,
43
,
44
,
49
,
67
,
70
,
92
,
111
,
119
,
140
,
185
Mother Theresa,
88
,
182
Muslim,
47
,
75
,
92
,
101
,
102
,
104
,
120
,
121
,
185
Mutation,
156

Nazarene,
48
,
92
,
101
,
119
,
120
,
153
,
185
Nicolaas, Adrianus,
40-41
Non-theists,
51-54
      definition of,
15
      dealing with god virus,
170-172
,
175-196
      influence of,
231-234
      principles of interacting with infected,
181-182

See also
Morality vs. values
North, Gary,
14
Nyborg, Helmuth,
162

Obama, Barack,
81
O’Sullivan, John,
63
Origen,
156
Osteen, Joel,
142

Pagan,
69
,
111
Palme, Olof,
117
Passmore, John,
11
,
15
Pastoral counseling,
169-170
Pentecostal,
48
,
53
,
142
,
143
,
153
,
169
People’s Temple,
111
Personality, role of in religious infection,
164
Personality change,
183-184
.

See also
Conversion syndrome
Personality cult,
140
,
142
.

See also
Vector
Pirsig, Robert M.,
37
,
45
Planck, Max,
211
Polyamory movement,
114
Pope Benedict XVI,
55
,
108
,
127
Pornography,
115
Power of external viruses,
38
Pratchett, Terry,
163
Presbyterian,
153

Quakers,
31
,
91
,
111
,
139

Ravus, Frater,
141
Reagan, Ronald,
60
,
232
Reboulet, R.,
94
Reich, Wilhelm,
112
Religion
      and economics,
76-82
      in a pluralistic society,
41
      mutations of,
30-31
,
39
      power of,
12-15
      properties of,
23-26
      survival strategies,
36
Religion and culture,
58-76
      binding,
59-61
      uncoupling,
58
,
74-76
Religiosity
      and intelligence,
162-163
      vs. morality,
120
Religious propagation,
104-109
Reproductive control,
107-109
Revivals,
31-32
Roberts, Oral,
212
Roberts, Richard,
152
Robertson, Pat,
14
,
27
,
108
,
128
,
156
,
178-179
Romney, Mitt,
70
Rousseau,
61
Rumspringa,
93-94
Rush,
165
Rushdie, Salman,
12
,
50
,
179
Russell, Bertrand
161
,
162

Sagan, Carl,
164
,
171
Sapolsky, Robert,
22
Schindler, Oscar,
129
,
130
Schuler, Robert,
181
Science,
162
      error correction in,
209-213
      religious imitation of,
213-215
      vs. religion,
208-219
,
228
      See also Intelligent design
Scientology,
44
,
53
,
169
,
185
,
213
Secular humanism,
67
,
121
,
176
Selzer, Richard,
192
Seneca the Younger,
57
Separation of church and state,
62
,
138
Seventh Day Adventists,
140
Sex,
84
,
85
,
95
      sex-negative environment,
102-104
      living in,
112-113
      diagnosing the effects of,
113-114
      sex-positive developments,
114-116
Sexual control,
101
      spectrum of,
102
Sexual suicide,
106
.

See also
Celibacy
Shachtman, Tom,
93
Shaeffer, Frank,
142
Shame vs. guilt,
94-95
Shaw, George Bernard,
67
,
197
Sheehy, Gail,
202
Shii’a,
44
,
105
,
156
Sikh,
69
Simpsons, The,
66
Situational morality,
125-127
Smith, Joseph,
28
,
48
,
208
Society of Christians for the Restoration of Old Testament Morality,
119
Society of Jesus. See Jesuits
Southern Baptist Convention,
155
Spinoza,
13
Stalin,
49
,
71
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
114
Stealth virus,
70-74
Suicide bombers,
36
,
47
Sunday, Billy,
140
Sunni,
45
,
105
,
156
Swaggart, Jimmy,
152
Sweeney, Julia,
178

Taft, William Howard,
70
Taliban,
45
,
47
,
51
,
71
Tamil Tigers,
36
Tao Te Ching,
115
Terry, Randall.,
14
Tertullian,
156
Theodosius,
37
Thought experiment, Mohammed vs. Jesus,
18-19
Threats to virus,
226-228
Tinbergen, Niko,
24
Twain, Mark,
17
,
49
,
106

U.S. Constitution,
61
,
232
Unification Church.

See also
Moonies
Unitarian,
91
,
111

Van Gogh, Theo,
12
Vector,
25-26
      effectiveness of,
26
,
28
      how to find,
29-30
      techniques of,
28
Vertical vs. symbiotic religious infection,
53-56
Viral load,
74
Viral reservoirs,
47-49
      Al Qaeda,
47
      Islam,
47
      Nazarenes,
48
      Pentecostals,
48
      Southern Baptists,
48
      Taliban,
47
Virus as metaphor for religion,
17-33
Virus-free living,
197-206
Voltaire,
13
,
61
,
130

Wahibism,
45-46
Wallace, George,
64
Warren, Rick,
142
Washer, Paul,
87
,
177-178
Watson, Dr. James,
213
Watt, James,
223
Weinberg, Steven,
127
Weiner, Amy,
151
Wiccan,
69
,
91
,
111
Williams, Roger,
138
,
139
Wycliffe, John,
137