Revolution 2.0

Introduction Cheap Grace is the selling of or wanting forgiveness and salvation from God without discipline or responsibility. A thought from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Cheap Citizenship is the selling of or wanting freedoms and benefits from government without discipline or responsibility. A thought from Will Luden. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.  Continuing All con games, where a grifter, a con artist, cheats a mark rely in no small part on the mark’s desire to get something for nothing. For example, a “pigeon drop” is a con game in which a mark or “pigeon” is convinced to give up a sum of good-faith money in order to secure the promise of sharing a larger amount of “found money”. Ultimately, the scammers disappear with the good-faith money and “drop” the mark who is left holding a worthless bag filled with news clippings cut into the shape of previously observed currency. When either pastors or politicians sell us on the idea of something f