On 2/13/08 12:12 AM, in article
2008021216122616807-thecroft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Andrew"
<thecroft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
>
Tell that to Benny Hinn and his ilk
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