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I liked how this article started out talking about interesting anecdotes of people being conned and very gracefully transitioned to the longest running cons in
by eric_h 11y ago
I liked how this article started out talking about interesting anecdotes of people being conned and very gracefully transitioned to the longest running cons in the world (organized religion).
- eric_h 11y agoNow that I think of it - I think this article itself is a great example of a short con. You start reading it, convinced that it's an interesting story about how easy we humans are convinced of falsehood by a good tale told by a very small portion of the population who are excellent liars and exploitative criminals. All of a sudden, the topic is deftly repointed to the subject of religion, something that the current global majority does not believe is a lie. And I didn't even realize it until about 30 mins after I read it! Very well done.
- EliRivers 11y agoAll of a sudden, the topic is deftly repointed to the subject of religion, something that the current global majority does not believe is a lie. They kind of do, though. If you take a religious person, they will (unless they're some kind of polyglot religious type) tell you that the vast majority of all the religions that have ever existed were a lie. 99% of them. More than that. They'll tell you that very nearly every religion, ever, is a lie.
- dragonwriter 11y ago"Incorrect", perhaps. The number that would say "a lie" about nearly every religion, ever, is considerably smaller.
- eric_h 11y agoMy point in that phrase was mainly that active practitioners of a given religion don't believe that _their_ religion is a lie.