Aron Ra
Quick Facts
Libra
Biography
Aron Ra (born October 15, 1962) is the former president of the Atheist Alliance of America, the host of the Ra-Men Podcast, a public speaker, video producer, blogger, and vlogger. He is also the former Texas state-director of the American Atheists.
Early life
Aron Ra was born in Kingman, Arizona, and baptized as a Mormon. He says as a child he never saw himself as a member of that faith, however, because he did not know enough about it or other religions to make a responsible choice about what to believe. He studied paleontology in Dallas.
Career
Aron Ra is a critic of creationism, and promotes the teaching of science in Texas schools. Aron Ra has advocated for the inclusion of evolution in the Texas Science Textbook hearing.
Aron Ra spoke at Skepticon 6 (2013) and along with Matt Dillahunty, was in the 2014 documentary film My Week in Atheism by director John Christy. Together with Dillahunty and Seth Andrews, he held the Unholy Trinity Tour in the United States in 2014, which they took to Australia in 2015. In April and May 2015, he traveled across Europe and spoke at several events including QED: Question, Explore, Discover in Manchester, England, at De Vrije Gedachte in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and at Skepsis Norge in Oslo, Norway.
In 2016, Aron Ra recorded an interview for the 2017 documentary film Batman & Jesus by Jozef K. Richards. That same year, he published his first book, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism, based on the synonymous video series with which he first achieved notability.