faith healers

Reverend Peter Popoff is seen nationwide on 51 television outlets and heard on 40 radio stations. His success is vast, however when a group of reasearchers from the Scientific Examination of Religion came to investigate, it was found that Popoff’s success was not deserved. As a “faith healer,” he claimed to have a direct connection with God. In his shows, he would identify people in the audience, using their names, addresses, and illnesses. However, instead of possessing the divine connection he claimed, the information was really given to him by his wife via a tiny earpiece he wore during the show. His wife sat in an area where the audience could not see her, but she could see her husband and direct him to individuals saying things like, “the lady in the blue, or way to your left, back row.” “When the Popoff ministry was asked whether Popoff used a secret receiver in his ear, Janice Gleason, a public relations consultant for the Popoff organization, said that the electronic receiver in Popoff's ear was used only to keep in touch with the television crew. (In the hours of taped transmissions, there was not one communication with the television crew.) Gleason said she believed that the woman's voice heard on the Tonight Show was faked. But Popoff later admitted that it was his wife who was communicating with him.” The site even features an “actual video of Popoff in the act of fraud”

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