Double standard?

[Zzyzx]

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If a person claims medical knowledge and cures but his/her results cannot be shown to be truthful and accurate, how are they regarded? What are they called?

They are regarded as phonies, fakes and scam artists. They are called quacks.

If a person claims religious knowledge and cures but his/her results cannot be shown to be truthful and accurate, how are they regarded? What are they called?

They are highly regarded by followers and are called priests, preachers, prophets.

Is this an example of double standard?

[Talishi]

If a person claims religious knowledge and cures but his/her results cannot be shown to be truthful and accurate, how are they regarded? What are they called?

They are highly regarded by followers and are called priests, preachers, prophets.

[i]Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.[/i]