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Darrel W. Ray, EdD, is the author of The God Virus (IPC Press, 2009), Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality (IPC Press, 2012), and many other books and articles. He was principal researcher on the groundbreaking study, Sex and Secularism: What Happens When You Leave Religion? A Survey of 10,000 American Secularists (IPC Press, 2011). As chairman of the board of Recovering From Religion and director of the Secular Therapist Project, his primary interest is in creating secular support netwo...

In 2009, when I published my book The God Virus, I received an overwhelming number of e-mails and phone calls from people asking for help dealing with the emotional and psychological trauma in connection with their leaving religion. In response, I founded Recovering from Religion, now a rapidly ...