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Recovering from Religion1 founder Darrel Ray2 discusses his organization with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.
Ray was raised a fundamentalist Christian in Wichita, Kansas, by parents who eventually became missionaries. He taught Sunday school and preached in multiple Protestant congregations. In his twenties, he studied sociology, anthropology and psychology at different schools earning a Doctor of Education from Vanderbilt in 1978.2 He became agnostic by his early 30s and an atheist by 40.3
He published a book on Teaming Up in 1995 and another on The Performance Culture in 2001. In 2009 he published, The God Virus: How Religion Affects Our Lives and Culture and founded Recovering from Religion2 with headquarters in Kansas City. By 2012, they had over 100 chapters in different parts of the US. They also now have chapters in other countries including the UK, Australia, and South Africa. And they have a Spanish-language hot line.4 In 2012, he published Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality. He is now openly polyamourous.2
Copyright 2024 Darrel Ray and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 international license.
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1. Wikipedia, “Recovering from Religion” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovering_from_Religion), accessed 2024-11-24.
2. Wikipedia, “Darrel Ray” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrel_Ray).
3. Darrel Ray (2009) The God Virus: How Religion Affects Our Lives and Culture (IPC Press, p. 15).
4. Recovering from Religion: Welcome (https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/#rfr-welcome).
