(March 24, 2016 at 6:49 pm)ignoramus Wrote: That's my point. How do you tell a grieving gullible widow that it isn't real if she is "really" feeling comforted by the scammer? Religion is successful for exactly the same reason.
Otherwise the Pope needs to be tried as the biggest mafia con artist of all time.
The Pope does need to be tried as the biggest con artist ever.
As annoying as I find religion, at least some/most of their pastors are just wrong and not actual, deliberate charlatans. Psychic frauds piss me off a lot more because those people know full well what they're actually doing. Maybe it's just because I'm a magician, but few things in this world make me angrier than a fake psychic.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
