So then why are certain cons accepted by society and others are offensive? Mentalists and magicians have been using the same tricks street cons and pickpockets do. What makes one acceptable and the other not, is it really just intent? The magician gets paid for showing you tricks, the con artist gets paid when he hawks your stuff. Is there that much of a difference?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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