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Apr 2021
1h 45m
The Creepy and the Culty: "Normal" Thing...
THE THINKING ATHEIST
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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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