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Deserves its own post.
Thanks!
Not sure how to put any more meat on it than that - is there any point that either of you (or anyone else) thinks could benefit from being expanded upon in a top-level post?
There's nothing wrong with a short but good top-level post.
Your second sentence begins with "Oversimplifying a little...". Perhaps oversimplifying the memetic taxonomy a bit less would be a reasonable start?
I'm not sure how much more you could really say usefully about theism. Expanding on the bit about the drug war might work.
Can you explain why you think that there is a bound to success (implying a frontier and a tradeoff along that frontier of evidential/not)?
I don't think that changes your essential point though, that religion is a zero on the ratio. But I'm not sure that's so. Religions claim evidence, and used to claim it as matter-of-factly as a history textbook, before they learned the need to dodge. The big ones also base their case on the claimed evidence - pure gnostic mysticism has proven a memetic loser.