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    Under Paul,20 beliefs became the focal points for movements

    which,  freed of genetic anchors, could sweep across the face of the

    world gathering humans of all kinds within their grasp.  For when

    Paul separated genes and gods, he helped unleash a force that would

    bring together superorganismic groupings on a scale the world had

    never seen.  He helped make the meme the world's most powerful

    form of replicator.

    Nineteenth century psychologist William James once said that St.

    Paul was a biological "failure because he was beheaded."  Paul had no

    children.  His genes simply ceased to be. "Yet," said James, St. Paul

    "was magnificently adapted to the larger environment of history."  For

    history  is  no  longer  the  sole  province  of  the  gene.      History  is  the

    environment of the meme.

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