The Perfect Shill
I think you missed the point (or maybe you just don't want to answer me straightforwardly). I don't see how the church benefits from "trotting out" this old "cliché" in any way. So I don't see how it tastes bad either - regardless of your own beliefs it's either a possibility or not, according to their (christians) own religion, and they say it is.
Well, they trot out the cliche in order to persuade you. They have done it a thousand times before.
You might fall for it the first time, but it is less likely the thousandth time.
And you can't 'see' how anything tastes anymore than you can 'see' how anything sounds. You need to listen to hear. And you actually need to taste rather than look, to know what it tastes like.
And propaganda is neither true nor false. It is simply plausible.
So to say that propaganda is either a possibility or not, misses the point of propaganda.
Propaganda is not so much a possibility or not, it is either believable or not.
The only sin a propagandist can commit is to believe their own propaganda.
Their job is not to believe their own propaganda but to get you to believe it.
Caveat Emptor - would you like to buy this old well used cliche or are you not buying it today?
So the propagandist only asks, how gullible are you today?
And let's face it, if you think MBTI is a reliable personality test rather than a cult, you are the perfect shill.