Spiritual Fraud -- Superstition and the Gullible -- a confession

"No amount of evidence to the contrary, including confession by the fraud who performed the tricks, is good enough to sway the True Believer."

clipped from www.holysmoke.org No matter how often the confidence scammers are exposed, those who believe will happily continue to pay cold hard cash to be deceived. "The true-believer syndrome merits study by science. What is it that compels a person, past all reason, to believe the unbelievable? How can an otherwise sane individual become so enamored of a fantasy, an imposture, that even after it's exposed in the bright light of day he still clings to it--- indeed, clings to it all the harder? "The true-believer syndrome is the greatest thing phony mediums have going for them. No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." No amount of evidence to the contrary, including confession by the fraud who performed the tricks, is good enough to sway the True Believer. If you are among these poor souls, well, you have my sympathy, but you must admit you "had it comming to you." After all, you believe the impossible--- shouldn't you pay for such stupidity?