Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking about ….

Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious prea….

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 somet….

Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men….

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 s….

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 understan….

Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at realizing ther….

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for rel….

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

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 where they can b….

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so compl….

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political ….

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person]..

We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful surviva….

Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-….

Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon..

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

Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutatio….