Just like computers can be infected by a virus, so can the mind. Especially the minds of small children. Kids will imitate and believe what parents say. If you tell a 6 year old that Santa is coming, they will believe it. If you tell them that they will burn in hell if they are not good, they will believe that as well. All Christians, Muslims, Hindus and people of other false religions ( ALL RELIGIONS ARE FALSE AND HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THEIR RIDICULOUS CLAIMS ) are victims of a mind virus. Good news is that there is a cure. For a computer there is software available to get rid of the problem. When it comes to religious beliefs, education is the cure. Patients of different religious faiths have a different mind virus depending on the geographical area on which they were born. Infected usually by their parents at a small age, they have become to believe in the lies. ( Even though the parents have no idea that they were lying, but instead spreading the virus that they themselves have been infected with )

Here are the symptoms according to Richard Dawkins in his book A DEVILS CHAPLAIN.

1. The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason., but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. Scientists and peole of reason refer to such a belief as 'FAITH'.

2. Patients typically make a positive virtue of faith's being strong and unshakable, in spite of not being based upon evidence. Indeed they may feel that the less evidence there is, the more virtuous the belief. This paradoxical idea that the lack of evidence is a postivive virtue where faith is concerned has something of the quality of a program that is self-sustaining, because it is self-referential.Once the proposition is believed, it automatically undermines oppostion to itself. The 'lack of evidence is a virtue' idea would be an admirable sidekick, ganging up with faith itself is a clique of mutually supportive viral programs.

3. A related symptom , which a faith-sufferer may also present, is the conviction that 'mystery', per se, is a good thing. It is not a virtue to solve mysteries. Rather we should enjoy them, even revel in their insolubility.

4. The sufferer may find himself behaving intolerantly towards vectors of rival faiths, in extreme cases even killing them or advocating their deaths. He may be similarly in his disposition towards apostates ( people who once held th faith but have renounced it ); or towards heretics ( people who espouse a different - often, perhaps significantly, only very slightly different - version of the faith ). He may also feel hostile towards other modes of thought that are potentially inimical to his faith, such as the method of scientific reason which could function rather like a piece of antiviral software.

5. The patient may notice that the particular convictions that he holds, while having nothing to do with evidence, do seem to owe a great deal to epidemiology. Why, he may wonder, do I hold this set of convictions rather than that set? Is it because I surveyed all the world's faiths and chose the one whose claims seem most convincing? Almost certainly not. If you have faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accedent of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different and largely contradictory set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemology, not evidence.