The Creepy and the Culty: "Normal" Things that Mainstream Religions Do Every Day

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Often, mainstream religious practices don't seem strange to us...because we're accustomed to them. But are the mainstream faiths any less culty? We think not, and this show provides examples.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, standby.
0:01.8	Three, two, one.
0:04.8	The thinking atheist, it's not a person.
0:07.8	It's a symbol.
0:09.2	An idea.
0:10.4	The population of atheists in this country is going through the rule.
0:13.8	Rejecting faith.
0:15.2	Percealing knowledge.
0:16.8	Challenging the sacred.
0:18.6	If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.
0:22.2	Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.
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0:27.0	For a more rational world.
0:28.8	Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
0:30.6	Much more happiness, truth, fusion, wisdom will come to you that way.
0:34.6	Assume nothing.
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0:44.6	Hosted by Seth Anders.
0:47.6	So many of the thoughts that I've had about culty behaviors that we didn't think were
1:01.9	culty when we did them arise out of the Easter holiday weekends, which is part of the month of April.
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