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Originally Posted by photon
I guess it's a fine line.. if you take people's money and do something in exchange that you honestly think might have some effect (but actually doesn't) then it's ok, but if you take people's money and don't actually do the thing you claimed you would do then it's illegal.
I.e. maybe the guy was charging for something but they found he was actually just taking the money and then turning on the TV and watching the game instead of reading tea leaves or brewing a potion or whatever he claimed he would do.
Or maybe he just forgot to put the "For Enterntainment Purposes" disclaimer that psychics use to get around false advertising claims?
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That's true. There could have been something like that happening.
Although according to the law:
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The law against 'pretending to practise witchcraft'
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Everyone who fraudulently:
(a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,
(b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or
(c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,
is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
(Source: Section 365 of Canada's Criminal Code
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Part A applies to just about any religion. Isn't transubstantiation like conjuring? Isn't blessing like "enchanting"? I am sure other mainstream religion have similar things.
Again, I am not saying that mainstream religions should be targeted.