Religulous Movie
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When I say common acceptance I am getting at the idea that we tend not to question things that are very familiar to us. When you look at these small religions that pop up from time to time, they are viewed as dangerous and crazy and called "cults." Well, that must have been exactly how Christianity was viewed when it first started. And yet now, it has pretty much taken over the Western world as the dominant religion in our culture. So when we look at a cult, we say, wow, look at all these crazy things they believe in, like that some guy in the reincarnation of Jesus or that the world's about to end. And yet, the idea that a man could rise from the dead? Or that A boat containing two of every animal floated on the sea for 150 days? All of this is considered perfectly normal because it's been around us for so long. Even by people who aren't religious, it's considered harmless that people believe things that, presented on their own, might be considered completely delusional. Not trying to be insulting, just giving the atheist or agnostic's perspective on it!;)