Faith-Healer Fail

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🗓️ 13 May 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Throughout history, pastors, preachers, healers and holy rollers have claimed to directly channel God in the performance of miracles. The sick and afflicted stand in long lines to be touched and cured by these (supposed) conduits of divine healing power.

But how effective are these healers? What types of miracles are claimed and received? What about those who received no actual healing benefit? Who profits from healing services and crusades? What are the tricks of the charlatans and fakes? And are they all fakes?

This podcast expores the side of "faith healing" that you won't hear about during Sunday morning prayer.

PODCAST #45: Faith Healers (with James Randi)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thethinkingatheist/2012/02/16/faith-healers--with-special-guest-james-randi

PODCAST #128: Religion & the Placebo Effect (with Dr. Andy Thomson)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thethinkingatheist/2013/09/24/religion-and-the-placebo-effect-with-dr-andy-thomson

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.6	Assume nothing.
0:08.4	Brash, bald, fake, black, blue.
0:10.6	Question, everything.
0:12.4	I find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.3	Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.1	has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.4	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:43.8	Cady Wampus.
0:46.8	Any of you people ever used this word in a sentence,
0:49.2	I was an albacurky for that stop on the unholy Trinity tour
0:54.4	with Matt De LaHunti and Aaron Raw.
0:57.2	We had a great, great, and afterward we were having a big dinner
1:01.0	with everybody.
1:01.8	And somebody at the table looked me straight in the eye and said,
1:04.9	Cady Wampus, do you use this word?
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