Christians. Could you be wrong?

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They are the same, but go ahead and explain how they are different.

And by "same" I'm mean they operate under the same principle. ..belief.

No, faith healing is when someone gets healed by the power of god. The placebo effect is not caused by gods power. Therefore, they aren't the same.

This. Trying to equate faith healing with the placebo effect just reeks of desperation, to me. But Huggy, if you're content with admitting that faith healing doesn't work as intended- by appealing to a supernatural source for healing- and just works because it's a con that fools gullible people into thinking they should be getting better then... fine.

But that's not evidence for a god. And I'd like to see you admit that the reason you think faith healing works is because it's conning people. Because that's exactly what you're saying, when you make that comparison.