Pathopistisist

What is Pathopistisist?


1.

One who suffers from faith. Based on the Richard Dawkins essay "Viruses of the mind" where religious beliefs are interpreted as cultural memes and analogous to computer viruses. Derived from the greek: patho = to suffer and pistis = faith.

Pathopistisists usually transmit their condition congenitally, however particularly charismatic pathopistisist are even more infectious and some (like tele-evangelists) don't even require physical contact.

See virus, meme, religion, belief, disease


0

Random Words:

1. The feeling of utter stupidity when you use a word looked up on Urban Dictionary in a sentance and noone has any idea what you mean. Di..
1. A group of people (usually girls but I suppose it could be guys too...) who embody dollyesque traits and are 100% totally dolly!!! Only..
1. A term used to replace any typical exclamation like wuff! dang! or what the? Especially useful when referring to the difficulty of high-..