Darrel Ray Quotes
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Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge…
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We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information…
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All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.
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Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely…
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Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.
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Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays…
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Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good.
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Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].
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Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at realizing there was…
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Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking about mundane things,…
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Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies]…
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Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with…
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Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.
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Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in…
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Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it will…
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The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass…
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Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and…
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Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then…
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