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The model that religions are nothing more than self-replicating complexes of ideas provides a plausible explanation (if not prediction) for most of their properties without having to invoke or assume the existence of God.
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Where is this model formally stated?
It would be interesting to know how this model explains away the idea of faith, since you cannot explain away religion without discussing faith. When talking about faith (which is inherently a characteristic of all religions, and science too, for that matter), science has no more answers than the next guy. Trying to fit the idea of faith into a psychological framework is futile.