In recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of books and articles produced by the so-called 'new atheists,' led by authors such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett. However, while Dawkins' concept of memes is, in many ways, at least partially a linguistic concept, indicating that Darwinian processes can impact cultural forms, little work has been done on incorporating linguistics from an evolutionary perspective into works on the origins of the belief in god(s) and general religious faith. This paper analyzes linguistics and their connections to supernatural beliefs using works from comparative and evolutionary biology, theoretical biology, comparative religion, neural networks, linguistics, and philosophy. I ultimately show how the metaphoric and semiotic nature of human cognition could have possibly developed and how this could have led to a belief in god(s) and the supernatural. (Edward Avery-Natale)