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I recently viewed the movie Religulous after reading quite a bit about the film, particularly how controversial it was. In case you haven’t seen it yet and/or know nothing about it, the film is a particularly biased documentary about how religion, in general, has it’s fair share of fanatics and zealots. The documentary touches on how many religious fundamentalists dispute some of the most widely known and accepted scientific evidence(on many topics such as evolution, earth age, etc) for a religious belief that has been passed down over time. Many of the religious zealots interviewed in the movie do not seem to be very educated or knowledgeable on the subject matter they so firmly “believe” in(much less the opposing viewpoints) as Bill Maher points out with his probing questions. Many folks are interviewed and asked “why” questions, many of them simple questions that they should be able to answer. The sad reality is that most freeze up mid sentence when they are attempting to explain themselves. It’s almost as if they are pausing for a moment to ask themselves “why do I believe what I believe?”

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I am not trying to start a religious debate as I am not particularly interested in what your spiritual beliefs may be.  Starting a debate is NOT my intention whatsoever.

I simply want to point out the similarities between religious fundamentalists and fitness fundamentalists. The plain and simple fact at hand is people will accept something blindly without taking the time to research and “prove” it to themselves. They take the advice of someone who has some supposed authority and by taking their word as gospel, they don’t think twice about it.
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