The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God

＂I don’t say this about very many books, but Craig A. James’s The Religion Virus can facilitate a wholesale change in the way we think about religion ... an engaging, entertaining, and educational journey ... packed with a lot of good information.＂ - Secular News Daily

Whether you’re questioning your religion, agnostic, or even atheist, you may have serious lingering doubts and fears about losing your faith. Over the past 2,000 years, religion has evolved powerful ideas that, whether true or not, are incredibly infectious; religion fills us with desires and fears that are hard to see rationally.

＂I feel so much better now!＂- Carolyn, who lost her faith in the beliefs taught by the strict evangelical church of her youth, but was feeling lingering guilt and fear. This book allowed her to finally release her fears and explore her spirituality on her own terms.

The Religion Virus (an Amazon bestseller!) will take you on a fun, fascinating, and eye-opening tour of how simple ancient spiritualism evolved into the incredibly infectious religions we know today, punctuated with humorous and insightful stories of the author’s own spiritual journey. By learning why you have doubts about your evolving spiritual ideas, you can finally begin to shed your doubts and start your real spiritual journey, free of the shackles of dogma. Recovering from religion’s infectious hold on our minds is challenging. The Religion Virus will relieve your fears.

When you close the book’s last chapter, your understanding of religion will forever be changed. If you’re questioning your faith, questioning whether God is real, losing your belief in the Church’s version of Jesus, or wondering why we believe in the bible as literal truth, this book will help shed light on how faith and religion has become what it is today. Knowledge and understanding will free you from the doubt, fear, and guilt you’re feeling.

By day, Craig A. James is a computer scientist who studied artificial intelligence, linguistics and genetic algorithms at Stanford University. By night, he studies religion, sociology, psychology and memetics (how ideas spread across society and down through history). James is an accomplished guitarist, a tolerable clarinet player and a deep-sea sailor. He is married and is the father of three grown kids who pursue their dreams with passion. In his spare time, he enjoys biking, hiking Southern California’s beautiful beaches and traveling the world.