Strong Memetic Hooks

Islam is a newer memetic construct, so when they created
the religion they had specific rivals to name: Christianity, and Judaism.
It was also obvious to them, that Christianity had already taken
the next and final revision role for Judaism, so it had to
take another route. Thus, Christianity and Judaism had
necessarily to be named as a pair.
Where Judao-christians say "Idolators", they name the rival
meme complex by directly. More advanced. I'm not a mythos scholar
but I'm sure there must be other meme complexes named somewhere
in the Koran or supplementary texts that specify myths long dead.

It's interesting that what sometimes are learned people store and forward
these memes without asking themselves the history of the mythos.
I'll study further, but I venture that it has to do with
tribal identity. Sort of like a favorite footbal team. Our
genes evolved with our memes, and vice versa. The statistical
computer generated by the genes had to repeat behavior libraries efficiently
and the memes stored had to allow the more genes expressing more effecient
memetic computing to survive. There are some pretty specific behaviors layed out in these
religious texts. These religious texts were more persistent than
the genes in that they tolerated little mutation. Being the
so called "Word Of Gawd" generally ensured little mutation word occur.
I'm sure rival memetic complexes that did not hav that in their genome
soon died from too many revisions.

Perhaps if we could get genetic material from different but isolated relious practitioners
that could be established as having practiced their specific religion
for many generations, we could perhaps find markers that lead to specific behavior.
Like a Jihad, or Crusade, or dressing funny.

I think I know where you're going with this line of thought.

It's word phrasing you're talking about, right?

I've read treatises about this concerning the comparison of tradition folk music in Appalachia to music of Medieval England and how it is closer in word and music phrasing than what has survived in 2oth century England.

Am I close?

That's the writing of someone who has plenty of his own myths and superstitions to wrestle with :-) But then, if we the secular see ourselves as having triangulated our way above and beyond those silly old religious dichotomies by virtue of our secular-ness, then it's our own failure to recognize those dichotomies as *false* ones that helps us feel so far above it all, now isn't it?