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Faith healing, to me, is hand's down the most obvious example of supernatural deception for profit.
It's not just dishonest, it is dangerous, as one of the audio clips clearly displays when a faith healer declares a woman with AIDS to be CURED after just one visit.
Having been subjected to a long string of faith healing churches as a young person, I can attest first hand to the evil of this chicanery. I've easily witnessed over a hundred so called 'faith healings', and it was the last one that utterly destroyed my belief in anything supernatural.
This last one involved a young boy who was deaf. After the stage act that was a clear deception of the audience, yet the audience fell still fell for it. The "faith healer" declared it a miracle and was gone from the church in less than 10 minutes after the service. The boy, of course, was still stone deaf and looked more than a little confused.
There were probably 500 or so people in attendance at this particular church in Houston, Tx. I'm not sure about the split on the take for the faith healing service, but whatever it was this was no small amount of money involved.
Quick cash, people who get burned either stick around until they die or get ticked off and never come back. Either way, the crooks running the scam aren't liable for anything they say or do. If they tell a person with AIDS they are cured and don't need their meds anymore, they aren't legally responsible for it.
The victims of this fraud are desperate, hurt, dying, and would do just about anything for help. Some victims even refuse to seek real medical attention with fatal results.
The cynic's view is that these people deserve what they have coming to them. That's simply not true, they also subject their children and helpless dependents to this stuff as well.
Do their kids deserve to die because their parents refuse to let them have real medical treatment?
The dangerous nature of this fraud doesn't just apply to "faith healers" but also to the "Christian Science" death cult, the crazy-as-heck Church of Scientology cult and the disturbingly popular "homeopathy" medical fraud.
It is easy to dismiss these things as minor happenings, but they are not. They are extremely wide spread multi-million dollar industries that are allowed to give people medical advice and claim to have an infallible method of treating illnesses with no legal repercussions whatsoever.
I consider it my responsibility to out them at every opportunity. Please spread the word about these practices whenever you can, even if it's just once.
