# Pitting Benny Hinn's followers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414 "2005-03-07T19:35:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![joshg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joshg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshg)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/61 "2011-03-03T23:22:30Z")
This sort of scene is repeated over and over: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CoaZOtVagg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CoaZOtVagg) These are venezuelan military soldiers; another shows his son. I saw his son in one of the conferences and he said he didn’t at all want to be a minister, but rather a baseball player. So this was interesting: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4NSS6GMKFI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4NSS6GMKFI) A lot of these people don’t ever intend to fall but it happens. I actually didn’t in the crusades, while a lot of people directly in front of me did. However, as I did say, I felt a strong buzzing sensation. I’ve been to alot of other events at that center before and never felt it. It could be some sort of generator. Benny Hinn never said there wasn’t (as far as I’m aware). ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/62 "2011-03-03T23:22:48Z")
> [@Cyningablod](#): > > As **EP** suggested, 'twas the power of Necroposting. 😃 Psh, everybody knows zombie threads aren’t made with magic. It’s just some fish powder they sprinkle in the server. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/63 "2011-03-03T23:52:09Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Psh, everybody knows zombie threads aren’t made with magic. It’s just some fish powder they sprinkle in the server. Well, that explains the stink, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/64 "2011-03-04T05:07:46Z")
> [@joshg](#): > > This sort of scene is repeated over and over: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CoaZOtVagg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CoaZOtVagg) And with [a kid](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cnib8Orx8w&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![joshg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joshg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshg)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/65 "2011-03-04T15:08:00Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Mmmmmmyup, you are. Welcome to the SDMB, Paid Shill or Ignorant Retard. Only time and your continued posting will reveal to which equally reviled category you belong! I’m not defending him. I want to bring this up because I want the question asked to him, if he uses any physical methods to produce the feeling. Does he pump anything to the air? Has anyone tested anything at his crusades? Also I’m seeing various other posts across the internet. One person totally lost all faith in Hinn because that electrocution sort of feeling was incredibly negative and unpleasant. If he were really upright, honest, and the man he claims to be, he would reveal a little more about his personal life than he actually does, especially his finances. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/66 "2011-03-04T15:31:03Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > By the way, **Abbie** , I agree with you that meditation/prayer can positively affect medical treatment. I have many relatives who are very well-educated doctors and they have seen this phenomenon. I know there are studies being done on it currently. However, this is no way mirrors what goes on at Benny Hinn conventions. Is this not just an extension of the placebo effect? ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/67 "2011-03-04T16:13:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > The jury’s still out on faith healings They are currently debating the flat earth, but once that’ over they will rule on faith healing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/68 "2011-03-04T17:33:04Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > You mean like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYoqoxN_nGI)? 🆒 Thank you! That’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414/69 "2011-03-05T01:22:13Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > When my old man was confined to a wheel chair from Lou Gehrig’s, he was pretty desperate to find something to make him walk again. At one point he wanted to goto Benny Hinn’s thing when he was in town, but we convinced him it was a load of horse shit. I was shocked he would even ask, since all his life he was a sharply cynical guy who went to church \*maybe \*once a year, and thought everyone was out to scam him. That makes me feel so sad for your dad. ☹ I can see how someone in that situation might be desperate enough to try anything. People who try to take advantage of desperate sick people with quackery are some of the lowest scum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-benny-hinns-followers/293414.md?page=3)