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Apr 2021
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The Creepy and the Culty: "Normal" Thing...

THE THINKING ATHEIST
About this episode
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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