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Please Donate to keep this channel alive: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s... In the 1980's, James "The Amazing" Randi exposed Peter Popoff on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Popoff was exposed by James Randi and others as a con prophet who profits by fabricating an air of the miraculous about himself, using seemingly private information about people in his congregation to lull the sick into believing that God can heal them miraculously through Popoff, for a fee of course.

Popoff did this using technological means, using a hearing aid and radio transmitter which was picked up by radio scanners and recorded showing that he was being prompted by his wife with information from prayer cards filled out by the congregation before his live performance.
Such information asked to be filled on the cards was private to individuals. This included afflictions they wanted healed, family members (particularly if deceased) and where they lived.

Most people would have assumed or have been lead to believe the information they filled out on the cards was not disclosed to Popoff directly, however Popoff was informed of it live as he mingled with the crowd by his wife who was watching him from some vantage point.
In this, Popoff was performing a hot reading, in that he was being fed the information directly. However the people he was manipulating would have thought the private information he knew instantly was being fed to him by divine means making his somewhat outrageous healing performances seem credible to people who seemed to be in a state of euphoria after witnessing such an event.

Popoff seems to use his crude acting abilities to make his exaggerated claims and false promises seem credible.

After he was exposed for his faith healing scam Popoff went bankrupt, albeit briefly. In the late 1990's Popoff seemed to return to faith healing and was doing better than ever; his exposure on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show mysteriously forgotten. In the late 2000's and at present, due to a change in the global economy, he drifted away from his faith healing crusades and focused on helping people financially using his "divine powers".
Popoff now routinely sells restaurant condiment packets of salt as "holy salt from The Dead Sea" along with small baggies of "holy/blessed water" which can apparently "bless you with riches" if you eat the salt and drink the water and ritualistically give Popoff money checks.
What is even more remarkable is that this obvious scam is fooling people in significant numbers in America and as a result Popoff is now a multi-millionaire.
Surely this is one of the strangest and surprisingly successful con jobs in recent history.

At 0:20 we can see a child looking genuinely puzzled at Popoff's act; incidentally being puzzled is one of the most important trait in scientific analysis and exposing the untruths in existing doctrine. It is amazing how easily children can see through the bullshit sometimes. While most of the adults and old timers in the audience of churches and healers seem to have glazed eyes devoid of critical analysis the children are always staring at the wild gesticulations and are clearly uneasy with the whole rationale of sitting there and accepting things without reciprocated interaction.

The school system does not help things by beating in the idea that a person sitting at a pulpit, dictating commands in a non-reciprocating manner should have unquestioned authority. Children are being let down across the board by this ultimate form of stupidity and blatant indoctrination.