Help me with this "What if"

[Tuk the Weekah]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

Some combinations of memes, most notably Abrahamic religions (or the entire idea of memes itself - David Brin jokes about this in at least one of his essays on the subject!), contain as one of their core ideas the notion of missioning. Of spreading the word. Because it is religiously true, or because it is intellectually useful.

I think that this is a key factor here. In any "memetic warfare" situation, the meme that has a proselytizing ethos will always "win" eventually. If one side is actively seeking converts and one side only adds believers through childbirth, it's easy to see how the active side will eventually swallow up the inactive one.

Pursuant to this, it's worth noting that the only completely unqualified, unambiguous command in Christianity is called the Great Commission, and is a direct command to convert others. The early leaders of the Church were called "apostles", meaning "one who is sent away".