> Sorry, I didn't mean to make any statements about you personally Hakuna matata. > I meant that the act that you described (comparing religion with a virus)

> Sorry, I didn't mean to make any statements about you personally Hakuna matata. > I meant that the act that you described (comparing religion with a virus) is in itself using the name-calling-aspect-of "virus". The comparison is more than a mere slur. It’s also a useful metaphor when discussing how religions & ideologies spread through a society, or “go viral”. > The descriptive property of virus that you then mention (as in being "viral", packets of information in cell etc) equally applies to liberty, democracy and other things that (at least I) consider good. Correct. I would still not call the viral framing charitable, but it is equally useful here, and I’ve used it for these & adjacent concepts before.