Darrel Ray Quotes

United States, Psychologist
August 24, 1950

Darrel Wayne Ray is an organizational psychologist who focuses on various topics like workplace organizational culture and secular sexuality. He is also a speaker, podcaster and atheist activist. He helped found the organization Recovering from Religion.

Also known as Speaker, Podcaster

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 the host until something evokes it.

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- Religion
- Body
- Gone
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 and understanding of man?

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- Men
- Understanding
- Years

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 as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.

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- People
- Thinking
- Children
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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- People
- Religious
- Utah
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 a society.

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- Political
- Religion
- Islam
We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

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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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All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.

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Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

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- Jesus
- Religion
- Married
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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- Thinking
- Religion
- Skills