The charlatans seem to work wonders with ailments not outwardly visible (diabetes, ulcers, arthritis, etc.). Their record for obvious problems (restoring amputated limbs, curing skin conditions instantly, supernatural plastic surgery to make cleft palates disappear, etc.) remains a flat zero when the cameras are rolling. It looks awfully impressive when someone leaps out of a wheelchair or throws aside their crutches . . . until you find out they're paid shills who are sound of body and merely corrupted in their moral centers.

As said in the documentary "Marjo", most "faith haelings" are psycho somatic or a placebo, the effects only last a few minutes, which is why they lead the "healed" people off stage so quickly.

Basically the person gets an endorphin rush, but if it works at all it is temparary.

It's a brilliant con when you consider it. The fear of reprisal from a god makes it almost impossible for a person to sue. Plus it obviously the unbelief that causes a miracle not to work. So sit down, shut up and pass the offerings plate.

It is ironic how much ‘faith’ the masses put in their beliefs, yet if most of them sat on a jury in a case where a ‘faith healer’ was being sued by ‘a believer’ ...suppressing snickers, would surely decide the healer was a con, but believer as an idiot.. So why doesn't the bulk of society/ humanity consider all those ‘having faith’ to be idiots..?

I suppose if ‘the idiot’s’ are outside their church, they do.. And maybe they view Atheists as being brilliant, if non approachable ..and someone to fear..

(Sigh) People involved in healings don't go to hospitals to pray for the sick because it's the people themselves who heal themselves. Benny Hinn even says that in his meetings, where people really are healed, including the blind son of a lady I knew from church.

When I was in Haiti, Haitians used to read their translated New Testaments, believe it easily because of their experiences with the supernatural in voodoo, then pray for people who were dying or even already dead for days, and heal them.
The white missionaries didn't really believe the Bible, being educated to be "rational" and always went to doctors and took medicine, but the Haitians couldn't afford it.

Benny HInn always tells people at the rallies that it's their faith that heals them, as Jesus himself said, according to the Bible.

Anyone can do it, and has nothing to do with "god" unless it's in the true sense that we are ourselves god, and creating our own universes.

We are making our own reality.
What you believe, or fear, comes to you, since your focus on it brings it to you.

“Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

As usual, if anyone trolls me for this comment, I'll just block you.

People are so gullible and desperate that they cling to superstition like it were a virtue.