Unfortunately, people are trying to duplicate the parlor tricks that professionals like White have mastered, but with tragic results. And, if worse comes to worse, they can delete the video and no one is the wiser because there wasn’t a congregation present to witness the healing-fail. With charismatic hucksters being able to pick their own “mark,” they can selectively choose who they think will most likely be able to be manipulated. This methodology is actually preferable to that of the old school charismatics, like Oral Roberts or Kenneth Hagin, who had lines of disabled people line up at their crusades, who would ultimately end up having to hobble away unhealed. White will scout out crowds, find someone with an obvious discomfort who has no outside or external reason for it, do a cold reading, and proceed to manipulate them psychosomatically. Thanks to the influence of Todd White, the charismatic suburbanite preacher with Predator dreads who regularly regales audiences of his mostly-unsubstantiated claims to impromptu healings, charismatics around the country have been busy scouting out unsuspecting people who have a physical ailment, for whom they can pray, “lay on hands,” and get healed.
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