Faith Healing Tricks: The Leg Extension
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- The leg-lengthening trick is on of the oldest faith healing scams and has been used by countless self-proclaimed healers around the world from A. A. Allen to Todd White to W. V. Grant. We'll explore 4 different ways the leg scam is pulled and showcase various faith healers in the act.
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00:00 Introduction
00:42 What is the leg trick?
01:18 Method 1: The slip-on shoe method
03:04 Method 2: Shifting the ankle
04:21 Method 3: Lifting feet to the side
04:21 Method 4: The hip-shift
06:39 Additional methods
07:10 Outro & ways to help
Check out:
Derren Brown - Miracles for Sale:
• Derren Brown - Miracle...
James Randi - The Faith Healers:
amzn.to/3J4NjAW (Amazon affiliate link)
Clip from American Gospel:
• AMAZING LEG GROWS OUT ...
Epydemic2020 is a Christian UA-camr, and I learned a fifth way to pull off the leg healing trick in his video, here:
• Leg Lengthening Miracl...
Watch the UA-camr "Better off Damned" crash a faith healing meeting:
• Crashing a Faith-Heali...
Another testimony about Todd White's shenanigans:
• Todd White Exposed: He...
ABC exposes W. V. Grant:
• Disgraced Televangelists
Slate - Disgraced Televangelists:
• Disgraced Televangelists
Final note: after completing this video and realizing there's a 5th method (linked to above), I came up with a 6th, 7th, and 8th method to complete this same trick, and there are almost definitely even more ways to do this same faith-healing stunt. I have yet to see a faith healer use these last few techniques, but it doesn't mean that they never will, so keep your skeptical wits about you.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support. Science is greater than Dogma. Dare to be curious, but don't Drink the Koolaid!
Check out my whole series exposing faith healers here:
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@@jjphank
Why do you *LYING* religiots insist on trying to replace reality with *FAIRYTALE BS?*
Grow up!
@@jjphank good joke 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
someone did this to me once. I use a wheelchair for POTS and he asked what was wrong with my legs. I said nothing, I can walk short distances. he then looks at my legs and says one is longer than the other. I said "I know what you're doing. it's a parlor trick. and my legs are fine anyway." and this guy _does it anyway._ it was extremely uncomfortable and it's why I don't go to church events to support friends who put them on anymore.
Damn.
I can help your legs look a little more aesthetic! Oh, you want to walk long distances? Well, God works in mysterious ways....
@@jjphank who said I am a proponent of those things? I don't know enough about them to even have an opinion.
@@95mudshovel Just ignore them. Not only does their comment have nothing to do with the subject, as someone who does know about CRT, I can tell you they don't.
@@jjphank
Who is this imaginary "youre" .
The assumptions that comment contains about things that have nothing to do with anyone here is pathetic.
Do you think it makes Christians parlor tricks go away?
It's saddening, sickening, and disgusting that they're still able to get away with crap like that.
They just can't get passed the goat herder myths.
It's sad people are ignorant enough to fall for it. Unbelievable
@@SimonWoodburyForget Ignorance is deadly not bliss & misplaced trust is deadly to.
@@jjphank here: In the time Yeshu'a was born Caesar Augustus decreed that all the world should be taxed, and that everyone must go to the city of their birth. First off, it was not the "Whole world." Illogical. The Roman world is what is meant. Second off, do you actually believe that the whole Roman economy would just stop to fulfill this mandate? Because that is what they would have to do. The logical way would be to send tax "agents" out to all the area to see how much property, belongings, animals, crops and land so they could be properly taxed. How would you properly tax a family without knowing what they owned that was taxable? And I have a couple recommendations for you: look up Thomas's videos on biblical contradictions. And, get the book "Zealot" by Reza Aslan to learn about the historical Yeshu'a. The Roman Catholic Church is responsible for the shortened Bible...there are many more books that should be read; Ezra, Jubilees, Maccabees, The Infant Gospel of Thomas, etc. Don't flat out buy into the Bible being only 40 books. The others were censored by church decree.
@@jjphank
Grow up!
I was at a youth retreat where there was a kid who actually had one leg longer than the other and limped visibly as a result. In one of the services they did the speaking in tongues session and called him up to heal him. The guy doing the healing was a new Youth Pastor and I think thought this was a real thing to try. He tried it, but the kid’s leg wouldn’t change. He eventually gave up and moved on, with the kid sitting there disappointed. It was pretty sad.
There are the charlatans but then there are all the people being tricked and gaslighted as deficient and lacking faith when it doesn’t work. If only you were a stronger Christian then you’d be able to do what this guy who is totally faking it and lying can do!
The way Charismatic/Pentecostal people think,it would take at least faith the size of a mustard seed to make limbs grow.But Jesus said if you have faith the size of a mustard seed that "nothing will be impossible for you." That being said,they should be able to restore the amputated limbs of soldiers that have come back from war.I don't think I will be seeing that anytime soon
“You’re going to burn in hell for believing your own eyes instead of thinking the faith healing didn’t work because you’re not a good enough person! Also DNA!!!” -@@jjphank
@@jjphank 👨❤️💋👨👬👨👨👧👦
It's all an act. All of it.
Jim Jones used to "cure" cancer all the time, with rancid chicken livers for the prop.
@@shriggs55 I think every Christian wants to be a wizard after reading Acts.
We prayed over the sick so many times, never any miracles.
Someone tried to do this on me as a kid. I was so confused why everyone around the “healer” was so overjoyed and impressed.
Left a big impression on me and helped me get free of such superstition.
If only everyone was able to have that same reaction. I had a devout born-again friend in high school, who had seen this trick, and it seemed to serve as a major bedrock of his testimony. So sad to see how unscrupulously these charlatans are willing to manipulate folks. :(
@@ZanJoKyR that is because the only god that faith healers worship is the Almighty Dollar.
I had that done to me. It felt real, but even after I found I wasn't any taller, I still held on to my faith for years. Since I de-converted, I see things more clearly. I see the trickery.
@@jjphank The bible is a highly edited collection of writings, and poorly written in places. If I was to turn in a term paper in the style of any of the OT "books", I would get a failing grade. A lot of it is myth. A portion is just lists of names and places. Some of it is immoral. As for DNA, it is not a "code". It changes with each recombination.
@@jjphank You state a lot of supposed "facts" about DNA. Do you know this, or just believe it because you want to? I am not a believer. I am a skeptic. Some things are acceptable, some stuff is plausible, while other claims are rejected. Wouldn't "outside of time and space" be nowhere or nothing? Time and space go together. If matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, doesn't that mean that a god couldn't "create" them? As for the 'Big Bang', we don't know what was before. Nobody does. And you don't either. "God did it!" is not a valid answer. When it comes to some of your interpretations of bible passages, I see you have some imaginative conclusions. You read into it what best supports your beliefs. RNA self-replicated and then somehow produced DNA. Abiogenesis is a field of study that is beyond me, and I suspect, you. It is a separate field of study from evolution. Believers (in a god) tend to blend abiogenesis, evolution, and cosmology all into one talking point when addressing atheists.
Counter move: you let the "healer" do the trick, but you shift your hips the opposite way to negate his trick.
Pure evil: Learn to dislocate your hip and crawl away screaming
@@UA-cam.Commen-tater 🤣
@@jjphank Poorly written word salad filled with fallacies, word games, empty assertions and demonstrably false “facts”.
If that is the best your religion has to offer … I’m not going to waste my time by getting worried about it’s god.
Power move, kick your shoes off and see what they do when you're barefoot
Thing is, that hose tricks unfortunatly work because those participateing in it, generally are presupposeing that it works. With that their mind will trick them into believeing that it worked.
Not only that but placebo will also realy help.
AND there is something within magic which is called the instant-stooge. That exploiting human psychology to become complicit in the act eventhough you are actually not pre-primed to the trick.
It is when an magician takes an actual random person from the audience and primes him on the go to go along with the trick, and because humans are rather social animals, and because one doesn't want to embarres the person one follows along rather than blowing the trick.
This can (I say can because it is speculation on my part exploited by those charlartans.
Now there were people, like Rhandi, who went in with the intent to fuck those shows over, but genrally that doesn't work as well as one would hope, often because charlartans are very very well at deflecting blame.
If it didn't work, you YOU did not believe enough, and hence god would not help you as you are a scoffer.
And similar to the initial problem, peole going there are primed to believe it, and will also unconsiouly blame you for the failed healing.
“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”
Emile M. Cioran
Damn.
The scary part is the sheer number of crooks devoted to the practice. They are on 24/7 on all counts and on all fronts.
It's scary so many fall for it.
I'm starting to side with the crook's.
PT Barnum - There's a sucker born every minute.
@@jjphank That's what you believe & you have the right to. Some of us disagree with the psychopathic Abrahamic god of the man written bible. There is no everlasting Hell & I don't need the fear of Hell to be a straight up ethical, moral, full of integrity human being.
I could never deceive or rip off another person, let alone in the name of a god like the churches & psychopathic preacher's do. I can't go against my conscience like "The Wolves In Sheep's Clothing". Obviously they don't fear their god or Hell to rip off troubled unaware people.
They best take cover on their judgement day.
@@jjphank
" Take the log out of your eye before you try & take the speck of dust out of mine".
Your 3 comments to me don't even appear on this thread.
Please go & harass someone else.
I am done with you.
@@jjphank
*GROW UP,* and get a life!
I actually have a minor deformity where My right leg is about 1.5cm shorter than the left. It is natural and about one third of the population of the world have this. I had a fake healer attempt to do this to me one day using the shoe trick. When I ask him why he was moving my shoe, he stumbled and said that it was in the way of the merical. When I was ask if the problem had gone away I said no, my back still hurts and it was not what I came for. About half the people walked away. Me I asked his 'handler' for a card and he started to give to me when he asked why i wanted it, if he did not heal me, I said to sue him, the card disappeared.
Peace
Todd White was a huge inspiration for me as a teen. He was a speaker at a youth retreat and was a big part of why I bought into charismatic stuff. The church I grew up in was big on "the power of prayer," whether it was "god speaking to us" or healing people. Once at a church event I prayed for a kid about my age-- nice guy, musician, couldn’t play football anymore because of an ankle injury-- and by the end of it he had his prescription boot off and was jumping for joy during worship. I saw him again at the same event the next year, boot back on, limp returned. I asked him about it, and he seemed nervous or even ashamed to admit that his ankle got bad again.
I am convinced the initial "healing" was the placebo effect and that my prayer may have caused him to worsen his injury. At the very least, it did nothing, and he had to deal with the disappointment of thinking he was healed only to find God had done nothing for him
Todd white in particular is almost sinister to me. He does a really good job of painting himself out to be an everyday guy, an ex addict, just enhanced by the spirit of god. Saying this as a recovered addict myself, it’s especially cruel to prey on a group SO desperate for anything that will help.
This makes me so sick. While I've never seen this trick growing up Pentecostal, I am reminiscent of those sounds of "praising Jesus". They sounded so sincere years ago. Now I can see how disgustingly fraudulent they are.
This is the reason my fundie evangelical mother is a Christian. She's not entirely to blame, she was only 8 when her parents bought her to a tent revival and she witnessed this. But I hate that she never questioned any of her beliefs.
Thank you for letting people know about this crap.
As a person in a wheelchair, with a REAL, permanent spinal cord injury I'd love to start attending these events and volunteering to be "healed".
I'm an amputee and wear a prosthetic leg, the pair of us could really mess with them. "But you can lengthen limbs right? How come you can't lengthen mine?"
@@claritey I'd skip a couple doses of muscle relaxers, and trigger my spasms when they started to lay hands to "heal" me so it looked like I was kicking. Be all excited like it's a legit miracle and just throw myself onto to the floor to have to be picked up and rolled away.
@@eddyb1596 That would make them sorry. Make them pick us both off the floor when their scammy "healing" does fuck all for real severe disabilities that aren't subject to "getting better" from the placebo effect.
@@claritey for real though.
My wife has Spina Bifida and she can walk but not long distance and I would love to see how they would treat her.
My mom told me she believed in faith healing by seeing this exact thing in a studio or an assembly in her school, I told her many a time that it must've been a trick heel, or false shoe. She said, "No, I was there in person I saw the leg grow. His legs were straight across, not standing." But there's no convincing her otherwise...
She wants to hold onto her faith and deny any evidence to the contrary (that she was fooled). This keeps her comforted.
@@LudosErgoSum Yeah, there's also the sunk cost fallacy. To admit she was wrong after all these years is too much to do.
Reminds me of my parents strong attachment to religion over the years. It's almost as if they'd fall prey to anything related to a god. In fact, my father has called his involvement in the church his career now.
I find it amazing that anyone could fall this ancient gimmick. This why criminals, embezzlers and sexual predators are so very attracted to religious clergy, the automatic trust they are given by people makes their scams and crimes so much easier to pull off.
I remember that when I was younger and still believed in God, in the church they once prayed for a person so that his leg would grow, and the minister said: more, more, grow more. But he moved the shoe too much, so he said: less, a little less, God.
I don't know how nobody noticed the deception, oh yes, doubting a miracle done by the Holy Spirit could condemn you to hell without the right of redemption. Something convenient for the church.
Hell seems to be a very nice place since its at least free of all these arrogant halfwit Christians and Muslims.
Scamming gullible people should be a crime!
It is illegal. It’s called FRAUD!
As far as I know it is a crime.
@@markfrench8892
Yet they are allowed to do it, so...
It's a crime to scam people on the internet, but it's no crime for phoney preacher's & the preacher's are 501c3 tax exempt.
I'm thinking about starting a church LoL 😂
@@jjphank
Oh look , its another leg puller.
When I was a young man, I was a seeker and ended up in a house church in San Antonio that was affiliated with Kenneth Copeland. We had a visiting evangelist who performed a “leg lengthening miracle”. I was seated at an advantageous angle and saw the “faith healer” perform the shift-to-the-side-and-shift-back-to-the-middle method to make the legs appear to change length. I knew it was fake! But…I didn’t want to embarrass the home church preacher or disturb the faith of the others and kept it to myself. The self-enforced compliance was stronger than any direction to be compliant could have been.
It’s all so fake.
Kenneth Copeland is definitely misguided.
Kenneth Copeland is undoubtedly the BIGGEST faker of them all. Ask him about his 4 or 5 private jets...
You're far from alone in that. When I was a Christian, I also felt pressured to keep my doubts to myself because even if one thing wasn't legit, that didn't mean the rest weren't, and I didn't want to risk shaking other people's faiths.
Your work is so important! I just upgraded my Patreon membership. Thank you for being a public, powerful voice for sanity, facts, and truth.
I have been growing one or another leg since I was a kid, trying to fool my friends, and I don't remember anyone ever falling for it! I even practiced making it more convincing so the hip shift isn't as noticeable. The typical reaction is: I can do that too! So it begs the question why so many in these churches fall for it, as it's too freaking obvious. Something tells me it's the want for it to be true that is overwhelming their critical thought. It seams like in all matters of god, many believers just hang their skepticism at the door, and put on their coat of wilful ignorance.
Convincing people to leave skepticism at the door is part of the rhetoric & indoctrination process of many religious groups/organizations.
@@bellezavudd In Christianity and Islam, it's key to teach innocent children what to think, and prevent them from learning how to think! It should be treated as child abuse, and a crime! Parents are their children's guardians, not their owners!
@@Bob-of-Zoid
Definitely abuse. Unfortunately , too many parents are clueless.
They don't know any better because of the indoctrination they've received.
@@bellezavudd Well, others do it too that believe in pseudosciences and the supernatural in one way or another, but most of them are also religiously indoctrinated to some degree. Strange how the authorities see it fit to intervene when it's not for religious reasons, but let the religious get away with it, as if it's a good thing, especially now in MAGA circles they want to make indoctrination the default and make us all do that shit! They need to be stopped and held accountable! It's why I am an anti-theist!😠 Hail Hitchens!😁
I used to do this as a kid too. I also used to “grow” my arms. A lot of us kids practiced making it look more “real” on the playground and every time there was a new kid we’d argue over who got to show them the trick and see if we could really fool them.
So excited to see this video! I saw this trick get pulled on SO MANY people when I was a church-goer. Thank you for exposing the BS!
My mother had polio that made her one leg shorter than the other by one inch.The faith healers could not make them even.So there you go.
Thank you for taking the time to reveal this.
I've known about this trick for a while and glad I did. Once a "faith healer approach my friend in a park and started asking controlled questions. I knew within a minute exactly what he was trying to do. He wanted to arrive to '''oh you must have a shorter leg''' and do the trick. I let him finish talking and he did exactly that.
When he offered to "heal" I stepped in and offered to do it instead. As I'm a former Christian I could proform a convincing show.
He was shook and hesitated. But I was persistent. I did the trick to my friend in the name of Jesus and made the leg grow for all to see.
After I stood up and revealed how it was done, I publically called him a charlatan and he walked away as fast as he came. But the funniest part is before he walked off he still gave us all a pamphlet to his church as if there was still a reason to trust him.
This is the type of "healing" where the "healer" cannot possibly be fooling themselves. They know their full of shit and they reveal their intentional dishonesty by attempting it.
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Love your content so much! You helped me get over my fear of hell and overcome deep religious trauma. There is still more work I need to do to fully pull myself away from it, but seriously can’t thank you enough for the videos you produce!
Hope you get there, I'm sure it's tough. Having never believed, I can only imagine. Good luck.
All the best. I realise I was lucky to be raised on science and not religion. Must be tough to break out of those teachings which happened when your brain was still forming. You're on the right path now. Good luck.
Very amazing that you captured this miracle occurring for your friend multiple times in this video. It is unfortunate that Satan kept reshrinking his leg
Thank you, Mumma, for not having done this (or, I assume, having heard of it) on my very truly short leg when I was little. Thank you for surgeons + osteopaths!
If faith healers really want to drive up both attendance and contributions, the leg isn’t the body part that will generate the biggest increase. Trust me, if faith healers could REALLY increase the length of a certain male appendage, they’d become the richest and best-known people on the planet.
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@@LwJohnL, You hit the nail right on the HEAD!
😂 the third leg 😂
The Catholic Church is well known for this...
😂 naughty boyb
I didn't even know this was a thing. It amazes me that people would fall for this one. Cool to see Eric again! I miss those two...
Lol, I had a chiropractor do that, he said one leg was longer because my hips were out of whack. He said I'd need a lot of adjustments, of course. But he'd shifted my hips a bit. I'd told him my dad had scoliosis, but that I was breach when born and they'd had to split them. That is fine in a newborn, lol. My legs and hips are normal, I never went back. Nor paid! I really had sciatica, and my real doc told me to do yoga, or, lay flat and legs in air, ride an invisible bike. I did the bike thing and after a week and half of just a few times a day, maybe two minutes, gone, never to return. Worked for everyone I've known!👍💙💖🥰✌
Simmilar to the tower posture, it helps blood get to ur head and neck while in it.
IKR? What the heck is that stuff even all about?
It is amazing for me, that you have to show how these scams are made.
There are people on this planet that are indoctrinated at a young age into institutions that strip away their member's ability to think critically. Instead, they are told stories without any factual content and insist that they must believe them as true. Because the storytellers got the info from a higher source who cannot be interviewed. For me, it started in 2 grade. By 5 grade I started to question the stories because they didn't make sense.
Somehow faith healers tackle the perceived huge problem of someone's foot being 1cm shorter than the other.
Why not try a real challenge, like regrowing someone's entire leg or arm on stage? I will donate my entire fortune to the first faith healer who can accomplish a real miracle.
See also: faith healers claiming someone is cured of cancer, but you never see a case where a cancerous growth on the outside of the body miraculously vanishes before the stunned eyes of the audience.
Chiropractors use this trick as well to show how out of alignment your joints are. Then they pop the bones (and its literally no different than popping your knuckles) to realign you.
Nicely done video. With this you are following in the footsteps of my hero, and that of many others, in the field of exposing hoaxes, chicanery and fraud, The Amazing Randi. No doubt you have heard of him. I think you should definitely do more of these. Thank you.
Agreed!
Chicanery ?
@@jjphank Whatever, man
@@jjphank Once again, your god is based on Canaanite mythology. Try to learn, bud.
According to the general consensus of scholarship (even critical Christian scholars), YHWH was originally incorporated into the Canaanite pantheon as a son of the Canaanite high god El before inheriting the top spot in the pantheon and El's wife Athirat (Asherah) before religious reforms. If you want to see if El is fictional, just read his mythology in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts.
"I should add here that it is very clear from the grammar that the noun nachalah in v. 9 should be translated “inheritance.” *Yahweh receives Israel as his “inheritance” (nachalah), just as the other sons of El received their nations as their inheritance (nachal, v. 8).* With this verb, especially in the Hiphil, the object is always what is being given as an inheritance. Thus, Israel is given to Yahweh as his inheritance. ((Here I’m indebted to Dan McClellan.)) It would make no sense for Elyon to give himself an inheritance. Moreover, as I’ve argued elsewhere, it is not just the Gentile nations that are divided up according to the number of the sons of El. It is all of humankind, i.e., “the sons of Adam.” This clearly includes Israel. And the sons of Adam are not divided up according to the number of the sons of El, plus one (i.e., plus Elyon). They are divided up, according to the text, solely according to the number of the sons of El. *Thus, that Yahweh receives Israel as his inheritance makes Yahweh one of the sons of El mentioned in v. 8. Any other construal of the text would constitute its rewriting."*
*"The Most Heiser: Yahweh and Elyon in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32 - Religion at the Margins"* based on the *majority scholarly consensus.*
(Written by Thom Stark who is a Christian)
*"Michael Heiser: A Unique Species? - Religion at the Margins"*
(A second response to Michael Heiser)
*"Excerpt from “Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan” by John Day - Lehi's Library."*
*"The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10 - TheTorah.com"*
(Excluding the short narrative on Nimrod (vv. 8-12), which appears to be a later addition, Genesis 10 contains *70* names of nations or cities, a number that was symbolic of totality. Similarly, the descendants of Jacob were *70* in number (Gen 46:37; Exod 1:5), *as were the sons of the supreme Canaanite god El, with whom YHWH became equated.)*
*"Mark Smith: Yahweh as El’s Son & Yahweh’s Ascendency - Lehi's Library"*
(Mark Smith is a Catholic)
*"02 | December | 2009 | Daniel O. McClellan - Psalm 82"*
(Daniel McClellan is a Mormon)
*"Elohim | Daniel O. McClellan"*
(Refer to the article "Angels and Demons (and Michael Heiser)")
*"God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible - Almost."*
(Pay attention to whose wife Asherah (Athirat) is in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts and how she became the wife of YHWH/Yahweh)
*"Yahweh's Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden - Mythology Matters."*
*"Married Deities: Asherah and Yahweh in Early Israelite Religion - Yahweh Elohim."*
*"Asherah, God's Wife in Ancient Israel. Part IV - theyellowdart"*
*"The Gates of Ishtar - El, was the original god of the bible."*
*"The Gates of Ishtar - Anath in the Elephantine Papyri"*
(It appears in addition to Asherah (Athirat) being the consort of Yahweh it also appears some Israelites also viewed the Canaanite goddess Anat(h) as Yahweh's consort)
*"Canaanite Religion - New World Encyclopedia"*
(Refer to the section "Relationship to Biblical Religion")
*"The Syncretization of Yahweh and El : reddit/AcademicBiblical"*
(For a good summary of all of the above articles)
Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards.
Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on.
Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40.
Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"*
(By a former theist)
Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.
"The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan
Was really hoping for a Darren Brown reference, was not disappointed. I remember seeing him exposing this and I could not believe how people fall for it.
I went to a multi-week evangelistic program as an atheist and this was one of the demonstrations of spiritual gifts. I'm still an atheist but now can heal the short leg, speak in tongues, issue words of knowledge, and demonstrate the gift of prophecy. Too bad I have ethics and morals, I could be very wealthy.
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I certainly hope there was some Christians there that could see through you, many Christians do know about fake Christians,,Apostasy. Fraud, and then you have the audacity to call them fake, you hypocrite.
Were they really just pulling our leg?
Good to see you Eric.
Healers must have so much contempt for their audience to even think of this stupid scam
I used to do this as a street healer/evangelist. I did it only occasionally and with total sincerity. It seemed miraculous to me at the time (sometimes).
I think Todd white falls into this camp. He comes across (of you follow him deeply like
I did for years) as someone deeply conflicted about how to best serve God, someone with
poor mental health leaning on faith for stability, and someone using radical Christian living as a replacement for his previous drug addictions.
If he’s a charlatan, it’s unconscious in my opinion.
I should add, I think when it ‘worked’ for me it was because people were shifting their hips due to my suggestion that their leg would ‘come out’.
A bbc reporter (local bbc) had this done to her at a church conference in the UK. Caused quite a lot of controversy because of Derren Brown showing the trick being famous and it was challenged whether her leg really lengthened as there was no indication really that her backpain originated from legs being different lengths. She did say her back pain was healed and the sensations she experienced at the Time felt like something was happening it remainded healed and I think a reasonable conclusion was that person praying did this in good faith, her back was healed and this caused the muscles in her back to even up and her legs to appear the same length...more likely than her legs actually growing out. I've been around when a friend of mine (who I totally trust regarding his honesty- he is incredibly honest about his failures etc and isn't a professional he is just a social worker in terms of job) prayed for someone out on the street who started swearing because she felt intense heat and symptoms going "f*** what is that" i think was the exact quote. I am expect it would be possible to produce a similar effect with hypnosis but my friend seems like the most unlikely hypnotist ((he isn't trying to hypnotise anyone and he doesn't have the smoothness or patter of a hypnotist) and he has a record of seeing things happen like this when he prays (more often nothing happens but I think he has.seen a lot of people say they have been healed when he has prayed for them).
@@worldsdumbesttrumpturd....3143 British Broadcasting Corporation heard.of it?
As I lay awake last night, I was thinking about how devastated the kool aid brand must have been when the Jonestown stuff happened. Their brand forever attached to a holy atrocity. I woke up this morning to a Holy Koolaid video about holy atrocities. Proof of god.
You pull your right foot in,
You stretch your left foot out,
you slip your whole leg in,
and you shake it all about.
This was awesome. I had this trick done on me around the mid 80s when I was in my early to mid teens. The usual alter call and speaking in tongues and all that and someone asked me if I had any issues. I did have legitimately lower back pain at that time and so they "healed me" I had no idea what they were doing but I sat down and the guy pulled my legs like you did in the video. I am not sure which technique he used as I was caught up in the moment praying and thanking the lord and all that, but it was definitely presented as growing my short leg. He was moving and re positioning them a lot with his hands at the back of me shoes like in your video. In the euphoria I stand up and say "I am pain free, I suffered for a long time, thank you!". Of course , next time I slept bad or walked around with bad teenager posture I had the lower back pain back . It was moments like that where I started to realize I was being conned by churches and was an early seed in my journey to de program myself. So, to see your video explaining what I actually experienced is super cool. Thanks for this one.
Glad I could help. And thanks for sharing your experience. I think it's really common for people to think they're healed (like you were) because in the moment the pain is gone. That's why medical verification and followup is so crucial, and even then, there will be some psychosomatic cases where the person genuinely improves because of things like the placebo effect, and the body naturally healing itself.
brings new meaning to the phrase “you’re pullin my leg!”
As someone who's grown up in a country where Christianity and other Abrahamic faiths/religions aren't the main religion. Seeing the whole leg lengthening for the first time feels like some bullcrap someone made and I thought the actors were just moving their knees, but I guess shoes work too. But yea, essentially it's actually really easy to tell if it's fake or real just by the ridiculousness of the situation alone.
I was impressed when my grandfather pulled a quarter from my ear.
I watched some Todd White documentary as a youth leader. When my senior pastor showed it to me I almost asked him if he really believed this bullshit.
My father was not a fake healer, but he showed me a trick to make it look like my arm could be lengthened by just pulling on it...of course, it only works if you have a long sleeve shirt on. I just grab my hand or wrist, pretend to pull carefully while subtly shifting my shoulder on the same side back a little bit. So now I can go on TV and heal myself and make a shitload of money like these crooks! Oh, wait. I would rather just have fun with it.
I remember learning how to do this in my past life. It was in a 'healing' book we were using to lean how to 'heal' people.
It's so flipping obvious that the real trick is the one in the believers minds.
I have lengthened my leg myself! Just a simple hip shift does it! It’s a miracle! 🤣🤣🤣
Even when you call them out people don't care, they want to believe.
That first one looks like he pulled the shoe out in the background and then pushed it in to make it look like the foot in the foreground is growing! Less risk the shoe comes off this way. Thanks for this video!
The day my pastor tried to get me to co-sign this on myself was the last time I entered a church for anything other than site seeing
I think I just broke all rules of the multiverses and realities. I’m a firm believer of The Christ, and I just watched, liked, and commented on this video. OMG!
Great breakdown!
I wondered sometimes how they pulled these things off.
I wonder what these faith healers would do if they found someone who really has one leg longer than the other, like my husband does.
Please, please, PLEASE drop more of these kinds of videos. They’re so fascinating to watch!
Glad you appreciate them. I have quite a few left in this series on faith healers covering different aspects of the con. It's just taking a while to get my research done thoroughly. One should be launching in the next few days, so keep your eyes peeled and your notifications on. :)
Thank you for this one
Pretty sure I know this one already, but still excited to watch!
Great research!!
I was in a church service or two where some hocus pocus was going on. The pastor would push us and we would fall to the ground by the holy spirit. Except a few of us including myself never fell. I have enough self awareness to know whether I'm falling down myself or if the holy spirit is doing it. But the vast majority fell to the ground when the pastor pushed them. I wonder if the pastor was nervous about us few exceptions, as if we were onto his game.
On another note, the bills are piling up quick these days, so if you could teach us a few more of those shoe techniques...
Looking good, dude - thanks for the upload!
Watched a few of your videos and instantly subscribed. Keep up the good work, these predators are extremely dangerous
So happy for your return...👏🏽👏🏼
You’re back!🎉🎉🎉
Always a blessing from the Lord when ya up load a new video.
The chiropractor I work with does this lollll
That chiropractor should have his license revoked.
@@klinnc8910 chiropractors do way more shady stuff than that. many were claiming they could cure COVID with a readjustment. They're snake oil salesmen
@@klinnc8910 Why? That is what chiropractors do. They are charlatans. This is not a branch of medicine. It is a scam.
@@MrSouthernlord Say what you must, but I like chiropractors. Well, I liked mine. He saved me from having to have a back surgery that could have left me paralyzed. 2 weeks of 3X a week - pain was gone! At a total cost of $360.00
So the only “charlatan” was the orthopedic surgeon who told me he needed to fuse shit and implant other shit at the tune of $98,000.
Eric! Good to see you!
Good to see Eric 💙💙
I have so much contempt for these "faith healer" crooks
Good vid, thanks. I knew of a couple of the tricks, and now I know a couple more.
Great vid
Good seeing Eric. Hope he and Vi are doing well!
We're doing great
Love this. Ty ❤
Great magic tutorial! I’ll be sure to use this in future performances
This is some ‘Amazing Randy’ style content and I love it!
Love this video
When I went on a mission trip to Mexico when I was 14, there was a kid that told a story about how he was prayed over and one of his legs that was shorter than the other evened out with his other leg, and a demon came out of it! He said other than himself, only the teacher at his christian school could actually see the demon. She then had all the students gather around the demon in a circle and start praying. After this, a porthole opened up in the ground, and apparently swallowed said demon. I shit you not. This was a true story this kid told. Funny to now come across this video where the whole "one leg was longer than the other" thing was actually not that uncommon of a thing in evangelical groups. I guess I'm only now just finding this one out!
Great video. I had no idea it went back that far. The third and fourth cons are amazing. Thanks for the heads up 😁
In the name of Jesus, give me your money
No one asks for money. Only you mention it.
Yay, Mr. Westbrook and Mr Murphy together!
Excellent video
The day they lengthen an amputee's leg to full size and grow a new foot I'll believe again.
Yeah, it sure is convenient that all the "miraculous powers" claimed by faith healers can also be replicated by plain ol' charlatans.
Great vid and also nice to see you and Eric collaborate 😃
I often wondered where all the faith healers were during the COVID pandemic...
Good to see Eric back on the screen
I always wondered how they did it, thanks!
I had a chiropractor pull this one on me. I always thought that it was physically impossible that one leg could be off like that. Lol. I never did trust that chiropractor.
Never trust any chiropractor. "Dr. of Pseudoscience"
lol it's such a scam. How can people fall for this? Thanks for the video!
I fell for it because I was uneducated, in serious pain, and desperate for healing. You don't think clearly when you're at the end of your rope. And all your friends and family around you are believing it too, so you keep trusting that it will work in the end. And you see some guy come to your church who claims he can make your pain go away, so you believe him. These guys are predators, preying on the gullible. Don't blame the sheep for getting eaten by the wolves.
It took me 4 days to get to watch it, but I have been excited since you said it was coming! Even more, please! Those faith healers are unscrupulous and everyone needs to know.
I've got an even longer more in-depth video in the works on one of the early faith healers in America that will hopefully be finished in the next few days. I'm just trying to put the finishing touches on it to make sure it's perfect before I publish it.
@@HolyKoolaid Yesss! Got my notifications on! 👋
Thanks!
Thank you
Sickening that people can trick people like that and sad that people fall for it. Thanks for the video!!
😊 yay. Thomas and Eric. Two of my favorite tubers 💜✌️
my mum believes that this happened to her.
also someone tried it on me and asked if the pain was gone and I said no. was very awkward. was a v well known person in my families denomination too
Interesting. I'm curious just how many big name faith healers use this trick. Do you happen to remember their name?
The frustrating thing is that if you want to do a postural assessment to check for hip elevation (something that can actually cause low back pain) you have to deliberately avoid these. i.e remove shoes, and control foot rotation and hip orientation. I saw a quack video once where the guy gives away the plot saying that his method needs shoes to "properly assess". Ridiculous stuff
Even when I was a Christian I knew this was all bunk. But I also knew that people need to feel special, they need to be affirmed. There's nothing more affirming than having the god of the universe heal you personally. There's a lot of power in that affirmation.
Hugely interesting video, thank you so much! As a cradle atheist, I'm just blown away by how this is a very clear con yet under certain "spiritual" trappings it's a species-wide delusion.
Also, great to see Eric again! Hope you and Vi are doing well :)
I used to look up to Todd White back in 2012-2014.. I was so hoping that his healings was the real deal and it was one of my last bastions preventing my faith to crumble. It crumbled pretty fast a few years later.
I was born with one leg longer than the other and when I was a very young child my parents had the short one lengthened. Of course it was not faith healing but normal medical procedures that ultimately corrected the condition. You break the bone and keep them held apart until they heal, filling in the gap. Then you do it again. And again.
This stuff is so very easy to disprove. How do they still get away with it?
I wished people would exercise a little more skepticism when it comes to faith healers. What I feel towards psychics is the same as what I feel towards faith healers. It is a scary thought that they have so many ways to fool people.
This is sort of shattering my reality.