Miracle Spring Water

[FluentYank3825]

Yesterday I saw on a Christian TV Network a pastor offering something called "Miracle Spring Water." He claimed that blessing and anointing of such water has cured and can cure a multitude of ills, ranging from terminal cancer to over $100,000 in credit card debt. He claims such cures are supernatural, and he even shows a plethora of people on his show who enthusiastically substantiated that claim. My rational mind says "How can anyone believe that this stuff actually works, and if so, why hasn't everybody tried it yet?" I would like anyone reading this to post their opinions on this. Should be interesting.

 

[Smoke]

Yesterday I saw on a Christian TV Network a pastor offering something called "Miracle Spring Water." He claimed that blessing and anointing of such water has cured and can cure a multitude of ills, ranging from terminal cancer to over $100,000 in credit card debt. He claims such cures are supernatural, and he even shows a plethora of people on his show who enthusiastically substantiated that claim. My rational mind says "How can anyone believe that this stuff actually works, and if so, why hasn't everybody tried it yet?" I would like anyone reading this to post their opinions on this. Should be interesting.

If it worked, I'd run up $100,000 in credit card debt, drink some water, and start over.

 

[Buttercup]

Not much different than this cough elixir my grandpa used to sell door to door. It did work a little though.

Seriously, this Miracle Water is definitely not the first of it's kind sold by a Christian televangelist. It's actually a fairly common ploy, I've seen lots of things "sold" by televangelists....and the sad part is, people fall for it.

Don't forget:

 

[FluentYank3825]

Not much different than this cough elixir my grandpa used to sell door to door. It did work a little though.

Seriously, this Miracle Water is definitely not the first of it's kind sold by a Christian televangelist. It's actually a fairly common ploy, I've seen lots of things "sold" by televangelists....and the sad part is, people fall for it.

Don't forget:

That elixir looks yummy!

 

[Boethiah]

Wait, what do you mean it doesn't work?

 

[fallingblood]

I actually have some of that. The guy is Peter Popoff. I actually did an expose on him awhile back for a college course. Before that though, James Randi exposed him as a fraud on national television, and Popoff then went bankrupt. I was surprised when I first saw him at it again.

 

[Noaidi]

'Miracle water' (or 'miracle' anything else) is just the predator's way of preying on people's vulnerability. If your life is in such a state that you have to buy miracle water or blessed cloth or whatever via the TV to remedy it, then you must be at a very low point. Those who peddle this stuff and who exploit needy people should be charged with fraud.

 

[FluentYank3825]

I actually have some of that. The guy is Peter Popoff. I actually did an expose on him awhile back for a college course. Before that though, James Randi exposed him as a fraud on national television, and Popoff then went bankrupt. I was surprised when I first saw him at it again.

Do you still have that expose? I am curious how you did it.

 

[FluentYank3825]

If it worked, I'd run up $100,000 in credit card debt, drink some water, and start over.

Sounds like a good plan.

 

[fallingblood]

Do you still have that expose? I am curious how you did it.

I think I still have it. I'm not sure where it is off hand (right now I'm using my Macbook, and I think that paper would be either on my desktop, or one of my extra hard drives), but I can look for it.

 

[FluentYank3825]

I think I still have it. I'm not sure where it is off hand (right now I'm using my Macbook, and I think that paper would be either on my desktop, or one of my extra hard drives), but I can look for it.

Cool. Thanks a lot.