What does Religion have in common with Viral Marketing?
Since I’m quite fascinated how effective viral internet marketing is I was pondering the other day how smart religion is using the same viral techniques. Think about it, religion has been around for millennia and keeps spawning new religions like Scientology. Why is that one might ask. The reason is simple, religion is very viral. It gets passed down from generation to generation. Parents teach their children about God, and these children will do the same to their children, and so on. When you are young its relatively easy to make you believe in religious concepts, especially if you are threaten with eternal hell if you don’t. So you have both the system in place to spread the believe plus a two-pronged motivation. Heaven if you believe, and hell if you don’t. If thats not a reason to believe in God then I don’t know what will. 
