You really got the attention of the loons with this post Best. All 3 in a row. Must be something in your post that struck a nerve, as gb likes to say.
Magicians are usually very analytical, logical, and skeptical thinkers. As Penn said they also hone the craft of fooling the masses and making them think they saw something the really didn't. Makes figuring out religion easy when you finally see the man behind the curtain. Many of us didn't have to become magicians to see through it all though.