by Midwinter <midwinter_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 12, 2008 at 06:58 AM
bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said :
> OED 'SCAM' - a trick or swindle, a fraud.
>
> It is a scam because thousands preach to millons making claims on
> subjects that have never been verified and claiming them to be 'facts'
> . The swindle is worsened when it is perpetrated on children at an
> age where they normally find the data becomes lodged in their brains
> for the rest of their lives.
>
> If that is not a scam I don't know what is.
Okay, so we presume that you're using a definition of 'religion' that
requires preaching. That narrows the field a little and already
invalidates your sweeping use of the word 'religion'.
Still then, a fraudster usually hopes to make some material gain from
fraud. So what material gain does a religious person seek? Bearing in
mind once again that your answer would need to include *all* religious
people.
