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| | The Conqueror Worm, Religion |
 | | The ant is controlled by the worm, which, equally unconscious of purpose, maneuvers the ant into place. |
 | | People will sacrifice their interests, their health, their reason, their family, all in service to an idea "that has lodged in their brains." That idea, he argues, is like a virus or a worm, and it inspires bizarre forms of behavior in order to propagate itself. |
 | | Islam, he points out, means "submission," and submission is what religious believers practice. |
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