The fact that some packers are now arguing that the Linux community must pay them royalties, because they have played hopscotch and now own the very concept of using a disk and a GUI on the same computer just makes the need for a cure for packing all the more urgent. So there's a long term conceptual evolution tucked away in religions, designed to defeat M0. Reciprocal Cosmology actually validates a core idea in most religions - that structures such as ourselves have relationship to structures in the future. Religious people get it distorted, and of course there is no bearded dude moving the counters around, the whole thing is distributed and only comes out in the long term, but the core idea would seem to be there. It would seem to bring some comfort to many lost and wretched packers.
Packers do live most of their lives in fear, after all.
And there is a third component as well. 2000 years ago, the bizarre rantings contained in the Gospel of Thomas were dictated. Just over 1400 years ago Mohammed started the chain of events leading to modern science. On the other hand, packers with religion memes in their heads have a tendancy to be overly interested in the saying of people who should according to all rationalistic thinking be uninteresting wild-eyed nutters in remote history. I reckon the Gospel of Thomas, and the other examples in other traditions like the Sufi stuff associated with Islam, is a logic bomb, designed to shake religious packers to their core and also provide encouragement enough for religious packers to confront their ritual addiction and logical inversion and defeat it.