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Podcast: Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists
Episode: Cognitive Dissonance, Cults, and Cowboy Delusions
Description: The Dallas Cowboys walk into a cult psychology lecture…and somehow it makes perfect sense. In this episode, Sacrilegious Discourse uses football fandom as the gateway drug to a much bigger conversation about cognitive dissonance, cult behavior, political tribalism, and why some people would rather die mad than admit the evidence is staring them in the face. What starts with “the Cowboys always win because I love them” quickly spirals into a brutally funny breakdown of how people cling to beliefs even when reality is out here beating them over the head with a folding chair.From there...