Religious Syncretism: The Ultimate Conspiracy?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Religions are as old as humanity, and predate the written word. They've also been home to a great many secrets -- in fact, some religions have been predicated on secrecy, and others are amalgamations of two preexisting belief systems. Join the guys as they explore the strange rise of religions, the ways in which they have melded over time and, ultimately, ask whether there are any real secret religions active in the world today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our classic episode for this evening. |
| 0:03.8 | Fellow Conspiracy Realists, we've done it. |
| 0:05.8 | We are two for O with accidentally lining up classics, right? |
| 0:09.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:10.6 | Yeah, as our guest super producer, Dave Kustan, called the most recent episode we did |
| 0:16.5 | on the weird origins of Christmas, Jesus stuff. |
| 0:20.1 | Yes, yeah. |
| 0:20.8 | When was Jesus Christ actually born? |
| 0:23.7 | What role did pre-existing religious practices play in the modern celebrations and rituals of Christianity today? |
| 0:32.3 | It's a deep question. |
| 0:33.5 | It's a sensitive subject for some people in this classic episode. |
| 0:37.4 | We advance to you, fellow listeners, |
| 0:40.2 | that religious syncretism may be the ultimate conspiracy. |
| 0:44.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:45.2 | And guess what? |
| 0:46.4 | The next classic after this one |
| 0:48.3 | is going to the dark side of all this. |
| 0:52.4 | We're going three for o. |
| 0:53.7 | All right. Let's jump in. We're going three for oh. All right. |
| 0:54.4 | Let's jump in. |
| 0:56.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, |
| 1:00.0 | history is riddled with unexplained events. |
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