On 2008-02-12 10:53:02 +0000, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
>
> Midwinter wrote:
>
>> bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said :
>>
>>>>> Religion, what a scam.
>>>>
>>>> It is the way Bill tells it.
>>>
>>> If that is the best you can do we can safely assume then that religion
>>> is a scam.
>>
>> You can assume it - but to be convincing, you'd have to define in what
way
>> *religion* is a scam.
>>
>> You can also explain, if you like, how Bill's diatribes against
>> Christianity expose *religion* as a scam. But that's secondary. I'm
more
>> interested in the first point here. How is *religion* a scam?
>
> 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.
A scam usually involves deliberate falsehood. Whether you like it or
not, the vast majority of religious believers are honest in their
beliefs.
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