Sunday, May 8, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Darren Brown: Miracles For Sale (Religious Hucksters)
A friend sent me this link today. It is quite interesting in how it exposes the fraudulent faith healers in the United States and elsewhere. California has been filled with these religious charlatans for decades. We are fertile breeding ground for these fraudulent belief systems.
Soon after I came to Pasadena Peter Popoff hit the news with his charade exposed. It was close to the time of Jim Jones, WCG's Receivership, and other religious leaders being brought down to their knees because of their lies and deceit. Soon Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye, Oral Roberts, Tilton, Binny Hinn, and many others had their deception spread across the news for all the world to see. Binny Hinn is the biggest fraud out there today. He owns more homes, jets, and cars than HWA ever did. Yet, he is is exactly like HWA in the way he uses his words, his actions, and his manipulative way of speaking that stirs people to action.
WCG has always been filled with countless stories of miraculous healing. I wonder how many of them are actually true. How many have you ever witnessed first hand or were they stories you heard? While I have no doubt in my mind that miraculous things can happened, I still have to wonder how much of it is mind over matter? Do we want it to happen so bad that we deceive ourselves that it has?
Soon after I came to Pasadena Peter Popoff hit the news with his charade exposed. It was close to the time of Jim Jones, WCG's Receivership, and other religious leaders being brought down to their knees because of their lies and deceit. Soon Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye, Oral Roberts, Tilton, Binny Hinn, and many others had their deception spread across the news for all the world to see. Binny Hinn is the biggest fraud out there today. He owns more homes, jets, and cars than HWA ever did. Yet, he is is exactly like HWA in the way he uses his words, his actions, and his manipulative way of speaking that stirs people to action.
WCG has always been filled with countless stories of miraculous healing. I wonder how many of them are actually true. How many have you ever witnessed first hand or were they stories you heard? While I have no doubt in my mind that miraculous things can happened, I still have to wonder how much of it is mind over matter? Do we want it to happen so bad that we deceive ourselves that it has?
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