Theology, or metaphysics, is a fraudulent field of study, religion is a sham, and the clergy know all this. They’ve spent quality time behind the curtain, and are well aware of religion’s pretense. They know suckers when they see them, and continue to succeed in convincing millions that they have a unique channel to truth and enlightenment, knowledge of the divine about which the layperson is, to his/her misfortune, bereft. From their exalted (and physically elevated) position, these con artists and charlatans go by many titles: rabbi, priest, imam, prophet, pastor, evangelist, etc., but there is one thing of which we may be certain: they know absolutely nothing more than any other human being about the actual nature of their deity or the so-called mysteries of creation.