(February 17, 2012 at 7:04 pm)padraic Wrote: The tragedy is that many believers will simply ignore him.
In defense of a recent debunking of another Faith healer/con artist, a faith healer/con artist will give people a song and dance about how their the real thing. Yeah, those other guys might have been crooks but I'm the real deal see. Translation "I've got the real magic, the other guy was just a phony, trust me."
Sometimes the same con artist can fool the same people multiple times. Case in point: several decades ago the pastor of this church http://www.godsark.org/who was an excellent con artist (so I've been told by numerous people) went on a fundraising campaign to earn money to build Noah's Ark in Western Maryland. When he made enough money he ran off with it. A while later, after he had spent the money, he came back, was forgiven and went on his second campaign to raise money to build the ark. This happened several decades ago and the ark still hasn't been finished. Follow the link I posted to see the progress.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
