Word: charlatanism
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...lead a congregation than join one. In a 1978 letter, he argues with a California pastor about the divinity of Jesus: "[E]ither he was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice you say that you and others have made...
...aides have been promoting a team of exiles led by Iraqi National Congress boss Ahmed Chalabi, 58, a former businessman, to control the interim authority. They view Chalabi as a reliable democrat in a nation of Saddam followers. But State, backed by CIA officials, says Chalabi is a charlatan who hasn't lived in Iraq since 1958 and has no constituency there. This group favors waiting to see which new forces emerge...
...interaction between Harvard student poets, Anton V. Yakovlev ’03 explained that “The Instigator,” a character from his poem “Cityscape in the Summer,” was fashioned in response to the “The Charlatan,” a character in “The Treehouse Journal,” a poem written and performed by Jennifer L. Nelson...
...sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared to put bite in its bark, reportedly moving its nuclear-fuel rods out of storage?a possible step toward producing nuclear weapons...
Schneider’s hands are a space where strange figures play. Probably very few of these children were aware that their hands contained exclamation points, pyramids, spider webs, ballet dancers or veins of gold. The charlatan photographer brings all these things to light. One can imagine a fly, with its UV vision, seeing much the same thing as it is about to be swatted. In this sense the images are very inhuman, since they require the unnatural eye of a camera to be seen...