It's especially bad with Scientology and Mormonism - both were founded in the (more-or-less) modern era and we have contemporary accounts of their founders. That people don't immediately think con man when reading an account of L. Ron Hubbard or Joseph Smith's lives, astounds me.
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Date: 2009-03-17 04:32 am (UTC)I took great pleasure in reading Bare Faced Messiah.
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