Inspired by this thread over here.
What’s your take on faith healers and the process of healing by faith?
I think it is to be avoided at almost all costs; but if there’s nothing real medicine can do, and faith healing can provide some placebo relief, perhaps it should be tried. The drawback to that, though, is that it gives this stuff credence and might make others seek it out in cases when real medicine might be available.
It’s extremely dangerous, since people who believe that garbage tend to do things like throw away their medicine and depend on faith to make them better. Plus, it’s outright fraud in many ( most, I think ) cases, and not just delusion on the “healer” and “healed” people’s parts.
Personally, I think they should be arrested for practicing medicine without a license; murder, if anybody’s died. Freedom of religion shouldn’t give them a pass, anymore than someone can claim their religion demands they rob banks( well, they can, but the judge won’t be impressed ).
When I get home much later tonight, I will post a quote from a doctor who has seen the effects of spiritual “healing.”
It is not pretty.
Looking forward to it.
I think faith healing is totally fraudulent.
Several ‘prime time’ type shows have followed up with the the supposedly healed, only to find them still ill, severely disappointed or deceased.
I fear some of the unhealed would feel that their faith wasn’t enough to earn them the healing they desperately wanted, which I find particulary cruel of the faith healers. I guess when it doesn’t work, the believers have to fall back on the old ‘god’s mysterious ways’ rationale.
I recall reading that Benny Hinn makes about 90 million a year, but his Mexican orphanges are still empty lots years later.
All that money could be put to much better use than buying Benny a new Mercedes or mansion.
Here’s my take on it.