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Darrel W. Ray



Darrel Ray, Ed.D. is an organizational psychologist and author of three books. His latest book, The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture is the most ambitious and controversial. A student of religion, Dr. Ray has studied the psychology, anthropology and sociology of religion for much of his life. He was raised in a fundamentalist home with first hand exposure to all the ideas and practices of that group. " ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 212 ratings · 17 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors
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“Throughout the United States, divorce rates are highest where evangelical religious practices are strongest, in the Bible Belt.10”
― Darrel W. Ray, The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture
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“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.”
― Darrel W. Ray, The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture
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“The beauty of science is that people actually change their minds based on new evidence.”
― Darrel W. Ray, The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture
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