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Benny Hinn & "Faith Healers"
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 (January 10, 2013 at 9:10 pm)jonb Wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYoqoxN_nGI  The difference is that Benny Hinn sells his escape as fact. Benny Hill knew damned well that women were not objects. Binny Hinn fleeces people by lying about his entertainment. If you spend any time watching long term Benny Hill, the motif is obvious, "I want to have a hot chick on my arm" But overall what you see is that he plays the very guy that most women reject and get's his ass handed to him. 
They are the worst sort of con artists. They prey on the injured. I would say lawyers are worse, but they are at least trying to make a buck with the injured not from them.
(January 10, 2013 at 9:35 pm)Shell B Wrote: They are the worst sort of con artists. They prey on the injured. I would say lawyers are worse, but they are at least trying to make a buck with the injured not from them. I am not always against lawyers either. I do agree that anything can be abused in any system. Give anything big money, be it religion or a political party or a business, such as law firms, and anything can go off the rails. Lawyers are not always bad. They have argued cases in front of courts that get the innocent free, or argue even to the tops of the Supreme Court that hold up Roe V Wade. Lawyers are not by themselves bad, monopolies of power are. People forget that private vs public is the wrong argument. Absolute power either way is. 
Very well said, Mrs Tibe. WhatsTheHarm.net lists thirty-four cases of people whose last mistake was to fall for, and rely on, these ambulance-chasing parasites. A surprisingly low figure, perhaps, but how many thousands of victims suffer unrecorded? More to the point, how many is it going to take before they get shut down?
Popular YouTuber and lawyer DPRJones has several videos on his channel dealing exclusively with the notorious Peter Popoff, the erstwhile faith healer famously exposed by James Randi with a radio scanner on national television. Popoff filed for bankruptcy after being outed but has since made a very profitable comeback with his "Miracle Spring Water" and "Manna Bread": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfBCiPfqF...5BD883826C The whole of the playlist, six videos total, is here http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFCA7505BD883826C.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 RE: Benny Hinn & "Faith Healers"
January 11, 2013 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2013 at 9:07 am by RichardP.)
(January 10, 2013 at 9:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Very well said, Mrs Tibe. WhatsTheHarm.net lists thirty-four cases of people whose last mistake was to fall for, and rely on, these ambulance-chasing parasites. A surprisingly low figure, perhaps, but how many thousands of victims suffer unrecorded? More to the point, how many is it going to take before they get shut down? Wow, I've never thought about it much before, but those guys don't give a damn about anybody. He's walking around the audience grabbing peoples canes and walkers and throwing them away. Having them throw away the medication that they need. Talk about chutzpah! Talk about total and complete lack of respect and sympathy for other people. At least the loonies with the snakes aren't doing anything that bad -- unless somebody gets bitten. But even a snake bite isn't necessarily that bad. Or at least it is not usually fatal. (January 11, 2013 at 9:06 am)RichardP Wrote:(January 10, 2013 at 9:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Very well said, Mrs Tibe. WhatsTheHarm.net lists thirty-four cases of people whose last mistake was to fall for, and rely on, these ambulance-chasing parasites. A surprisingly low figure, perhaps, but how many thousands of victims suffer unrecorded? More to the point, how many is it going to take before they get shut down? I am not into comparing loonies, "Less filling, tastes great". Once you swallow a naked assertion of any stripe the world is wide open as far as imagination leading humans to stupidity. Worship of state or god is stupid and just as dangerous. The only snake I play with is my own. RE: Benny Hinn & "Faith Healers"
January 11, 2013 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2013 at 9:15 pm by Cyberman.)
Me too. Wait, that probably didn't come out quite right, but you know what I mean. I hope.
Anyway, regarding Popoff (which I try not to do) - I'm not sure if it comes across in the videos which I haven't watched right through for ages, but he did this thing where he or his staff would scout out the crowd coming in for anyone who was frail and elderly or otherwise infirm looking, then offer them a seat up front in a wheelchair. Later during the show, he would miraculously heal them and get them to stand on their own two feet, which of course they were able to do anyway. Cue rapturous applause and ringing of cash registers.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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