Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Been watching GodTV for weeks now

Todd Bentley, Canadian pentacostal phenom, confirms Obama's observation that desperate people cling to guns and God. I've been watching a couple hours of this outpouring revival in Lakeland Florida for the last 6 weeks. I've watched the slick camera work, the mood music and the incitement of crowds in the thousands by bizarre head twitches, goofy HAHAHAHA laughter noises and "Sheekaba baba" talking in tongues. I've watched people you would pass on the street and say Hi to, just regular people, transformed into hand waving, eye rolling, falling down crying slaves to this strange looking manipulator. The psychoanalyst who talks about her patient going off his meds because he was "healed", the hundreds of others both in the hangar in Lakeland and online from all over the world, who stop needed medications because Todd told them they were healed, will all comprise a sub group of people we will never hear about in one email or newsreport. They will die, get sicker, or commit atrocities on themselves or others, singly, one at a time and there will be no way to gauge the damage this revival is doing. The revival keeps adding days, keeps taking people's money and keeps alienating reasonable ministers and pastors who are now uncomfortable with these claims of raising the dead. I heard him say this myself two weeks ago: he had 25 people come back from the dead.
I believe in the power of the mind to heal. I do not believe anyone needs Todd Bentley to smack them in the head or chest, make them fall down and cover them with a red blanket. You have Direct TV, check it out most nights on GodTV CH 365.

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