(November 29, 2015 at 6:30 pm)Heat Wrote: Con man - A person who willingly and knowingly lies, cheats, or tricks someone in means of a confidence game, knowing that this is what they are doing and purposely acting as though they believe one thing whilst knowing this is not what they believe.
Religious Person - A person who professes their belief, and tries to persuade others to believe the same because they feel this belief is the truth, and will not willingly lie, or trick someone, in order to get them to believe it, because this is what they personally believe is true, but may unknowingly deceive someone.
The OP doesn't even begin to cover the spectrum of the types of people who are religious, nor the types of people who engage in criminal activity like con men. You certainly have religious people who sincerely hold their beliefs and won't willfully engaging in deceiving people to get them to convert. But you also have religious people who will "lie for the Lord" to get you to join their church. You also have religious people who hold a "milk before meat" mentality whereby they don't consider themselves to be lying about their god or their religion, but they employ deceitful tactics of withholding crucial or important information from new members until they are sufficiently "prepared" (indoctrinated/invested) in the church to accept a particularly outlandish doctrine (think of a scientologist reaching OTC III and getting to read to Xenu story).
(November 29, 2015 at 7:18 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm a "religion person", does that mean yall think I'm a con man?
No.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
