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Category: Religion and Reason
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The Guilt Cycle In this, the final installment of Darrel Ray’s book “The God Virus: How it Infects Our Lives and Culture”, I present what he calls “the Guilt Cycle”, and how it is used to keep the faithful, faithful. Guilt is a powerful psychological force, he states.. the drive to reduce guilt motivates behavior…
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THE NEW CIVIL RELIGION Darrel Ray relates in his book “The God Virus: How it infects our lives and Culture” that the civil religion (What seems to be a cooperative understanding between the various cults of Christianity”) was a bothersome but harmless loose group before World War 2 but that with the rise of competing…
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American Civil Religion Darrel Ray, in his book “The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture”, presents what he calls American Civil Religion. Although everyone is familiar with the American Civil Religion, this is the first time I have heard it given a name. In early societies religion and culture were inseparable. In…
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In The God Virus, Darrel Ray explains his view of what occurs when the virus infects an individual. Upon infection the virus begins creating “anti-bodies” to repel competing viruses. Typically the individual will be subjected to studies which provide justifications for the correctness of their own beliefs while instilling arguments for why other interpretations, other…
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In his book Darrel Ray asserts that religion has five useful properties 1.Infect people. 2.Create antibodies against other viruses. (religions) 3.Take over certain mental and physical functions and hide itself in the individual. 4.Use specific methods of spreading the contagion. 5.Program the host to replicate the Virus. –1. Religions seek to infect individuals when they…
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A Book Review. The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture Initially, indoctrination of the young is carried out in all religions. Young malleable minds are filled with the teachings from the various tomes held by the myriad religious faiths. After this, these young people turn into adults, and are sent forth to…
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This Thursday May the 5th, let’s celebrate the National Day of Reason. http://www.nationaldayofreason.org/index.php The goal of this effort is to celebrate reason—a concept all Americans can support—and to raise public awareness about the persistent threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion into the private sphere of worship. The Day of Reason exists to provide…
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For Christianity, Easter is all about the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. However, what if none of it took place, what if Jesus never existed at all? Christianity has sought to substantiate the existence of Jesus from the second or third century C.E. until the present time. Through forgeries and lies and improper translations…
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The evidence is in and Evolution is a fact. February 12th is coming up and we have good reason to celebrate this great man’s birthdate. Despite the naysayers, the creationists, who would rather believe the myth than face the facts, evolution has withstood the test of time and remains the simplest most logical explanation of…
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World English Dictionary definition: Catharsis: 1.(in Aristotelian literary criticism) the purging or purification of the emotions through the evocation of pity and fear, as in tragedy 2.See also abreaction the bringing of repressed ideas or experiences into consciousness, thus relieving tensions 3.purgation, esp of the bowels World English Dictionary definition: abreaction : the release…
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