Religion has at least one saving grace: it openly relies on an appeal to faith. FlimFlam instead claims scientific respectability, but secretly relies on paranoia and ignorance of the ScientificMethod to gull the rubes. Also a book exposing such: ''Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions'' by James Randi, Isaac Asimov ISBN 0879751983 See Also: TheSecretOfPower. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0879751983.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.gif