8 Quotes by Darrel W. Ray

Religion does three things quite effectively: divides people, controls people, deludes people.” -Carlespie Mary Alice.

People with high dependency needs have difficulty standing up to this level of social sanction. The more dependent, the less able they are to use their native intelligence. They depend instead on the word of religious authority.

The beauty of science is that people actually change their minds based on new evidence.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus.

The pressure to bind is always present. Once the virus gets one hook into the culture, it has the means to place many more. In this case a hook might be reestablishing prayer in schools, which could lead to reading Bible verses in classrooms, which quickly leads to using schools for religious instruction, and so on. A culture that is bound with religion soon becomes an oppressive and toxic place for those who are not infected with the god virus.

The best prophylactic for god viruses, especially fundamentalist variants, is science education. The more science is taught or discussed, the fewer tools a god virus has to infect populations.

Throughout the United States, divorce rates are highest where evangelical religious practices are strongest, in the Bible Belt.10.

Nothing seems more pitiable than otherwise intelligent people gathering every Sunday to struggle ever so hard to understand something that is unintelligible.