The Faith Healer’s Favorite Scam

The Faith Healer's Favorite Scam

Can pastors lift people out of wheelchairs and heal the disabled? Can preachers and evangelists heal those who are crippled? Or is the rise and walk miracle the faith healers biggest scam? If this popular trick isn’t an amazing miracle then what’s really happening? If it’s not a miraculous healing then how these people rising out of wheelchairs and running around the church? In this video we’ll analyze footage from Benny Hinn, Billy Burke, Reinhard Bonnke, John Mellor, W.V. Grant, Jack Coe, and other faith healing preachers through a scientific lens. We’ll explore their healing revivals and get a bigger picture to see what happens when the disabled people are followed up with afterwards. And we’ll determine once and for all if the Rise and Walk miracle is truly miraculous or one giant con.

Jack Coe: The Preacher Who Scammed America

Jack Coe: The Preacher Who Scammed a Nation

Jack Coe: the faith healer who kickstarted a nation-wide faith healing tent revival before landing himself in jail for practicing medicine without a license would con hundreds of thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars. He built a small empire, packed out arenas, and traveled the US in the world’s largest tent – claiming he possessed the gift of healing and spoke words of prophecy during the uncertain times of the Cold War. Joining the ranks of Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, and William Branham, Jack Coe helped create the blueprint that laid the grounds for the modern faith healing con used by many health and wealth prosperity doctrine preachers today.

After working closely with Gordon Lindsay, editing the Voices of Healing Magazine, Reverend Jack Coe launched his own magazine, the Herald of Healing which reached over 300,000 members. Although he was exposed as a faith healing charlatan by Adon Taft of the Miami Herald, Pastor Jack Coe amassed a fortune while offering nothing but false hope and deception before the pastor died of polio at just 38 years old.

Faith Healing Cringe Fails: Part 1

Faith Healing Cringe Fails - Kenneth Copeland Pushes a guy in a wheelchair

Are miracles real? Does faith healing work? These famous faith healers are about to be exposed in this brutal compilation of faith healing fails. Come learn the tricks faith healers use to con millions.

Watch as Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, W.V. Grant, Robert Tilton, and Peter Popoff are exposed in this new series on faith healing.

Calling out Abuse in the Atheist Community

Calling out Abuse in the Atheist Community

How can you spot abusive behavior and what makes a community abusive? At the 2022 Better Conference (BetterCon), Thomas Westbrook gave this talk calling out abusive behavior in the atheist community, but the points in this talk are fairly universal to all communities. We need to recognize online abuse and learn how can you mitigate or avoid abusive behavior, whether it’s harassments on social media or in-person bullying. There can be abusive bullies in any community, but in order to build a healthy community, it’s important to spot problematic behavior and to avoid being toxic or abusive ourselves. Here are some of the red flags/warning signs of abuse.

The Backstep Paradox

Progress often feels like it only happens when no one is looking. Because it’s one step forward two steps back, it’s easy to get fixated on the backsteps and feel like no progress is happening at all. The irony is that by focusing on the backsteps, we stand to catalyze change.

What If God Wasn’t Divine?

Is Christianity Dangerous? Thomas Westbrook and Michael Jones debated the potential harm of Christianity at DebateCon 2022. In this video, Thomas and Eric Murphy (of Skeptic Generation) break down and review this debate between an atheist and a Christian.