Programming versus religion: a checklist of eerily similar industry quirks

Description

The image is a two-column black-on-white table headed by "🖥 Programming" on the left and "Religion ✝" on the right. Every row contains a green check-mark under both columns, followed by the same statement: 1) "Sells an intangible product", 2) "Nobody understands how it works, although some claim they do", 3) "Founded by gurus, whom most others just copy", 4) "Involves lengthy, arcane, and illegible writings", 5) "Requires regular and expensive payments", 6) "Never delivers what is promised", 7) "When it doesn't work, the client is blamed for not using it properly", 8) "Endless holy wars about which form is superior", 9) "If you don't like an existing one, invent your own", 10) "New forms are just old forms worded slightly differently", 11) "No society seems to get by without, try as hard as it may". Visually, each line is centered with horizontal rules, emphasizing that both programming and religion receive identical check marks. Technically, the meme satirizes common developer pain points - framework evangelism, language wars, user-blaming support tickets, and perpetual refactoring - by likening them to the institutional behaviors of organized faith, something many senior engineers will recognize from real-world project debates and tooling hype cycles