Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person]. — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Deprivation or overstimulation, combined with fear and peer pressure, are the conversion tools of many religions. A loud Pentecostal service, an Evangelical… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Religion is evolving to survive but is losing the battle in many regions, largely because of the Internet. Sexual information is far… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“the more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.” — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality. — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Religious programming has the power to distort normal, natural and intensely pleasurable behavior into something inconceivably disgusting.” — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person]. — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Deprivation or overstimulation, combined with fear and peer pressure, are the conversion tools of many religions. A loud Pentecostal service, an Evangelical revival, a… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“What did you know about sex before you started engaging in intercourse? That is rhe level of knowledge a priest has unless he is… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“Religion is evolving to survive but is losing the battle in many regions, largely because of the Internet. Sexual information is far more available… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“the more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.” — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or counting on… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
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