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Topic: Peter Popoff


In the News (Sun 12 Oct 08)

  
  Peter Popoff Meets his Match
Popoff is well-known for faking so-called words-of-knowledge via an electronic listening device hidden in his ear, dictated by his wife as she learned people's identities and ailments.
Popoff would not say much, but they were able to give him a list of grievances to which he never did respond.
Popoff does not pray for the poor and sick; he preys on the poor and the sick by promising miracles to them, but only if they give sacrificially.
www.cultlink.com /sentinel/popoff.html   (1420 words)

  
 Peter Popoff proved fake on 39-17-Mhz
Peter Popoff, like many faith healers, calls out the names, illnesses, and sometimes addresses of people at his crusades, then "lays hands" on them and prays for their healing.
Popoff is seen nationwide on 51 television outlets and heard on 40 radio stations, and has an average monthly budget of $550,000, according to his business manager.
Popoff's effect on his followers is so great that on several occasions he has asked his audience to "break free of the Devil" by throwing their medications up onto the stage.
www.bible.ca /tongues-popoff-39-17Mhz.htm   (2573 words)

  
 GOD'S FREQUENCY IS 39.17 MHz: THE INVESTIGATION OF PETER POPOFF
Peter Popoff, like many faith healers, calls out the names, illnesses, and sometimes addresses of people at his crusades, then "lays hands" on them and prays for their healing.
Popoff is seen nationwide on 51 television outlets and heard on 40 radio stations, and has an average monthly budget of $550,000, according to his business manager.
Popoff's effect on his followers is so great that on several occasions he has asked his audience to "break free of the Devil" by throwing their medications up onto the stage.
www.skeptictank.org /popoff2.htm   (2542 words)

  
 News | TimesDaily.com | TimesDaily | Florence, Alabama (AL)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Peter Popoff (born 1946) is a German-born U.S. televangelist who has spent most of his adult life claiming to treat physical ailments through the use of faith healing.
At appearances in the 1980s ministry conventions, Popoff routinely and accurately stated the home addresses and specific illnesses of his audience members, a feat he allowed them to believe was due to divine revelation and "God given ability".
Asking Popoff why he took thousands of dollars from a desperate married couple, Popoff refused to answer questions and declined to be interviewed.
www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Peter_Popoff   (1305 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Peter Popoff
Peter Popoff (born 1946) is a German-born U.S. televangelist who has spent most of his career claiming to treat physical ailments through the use of faith healing.
At appearances in the 1980s ministry conventions, Popoff routinely and accurately stated the home addresses and specific illnesses of his audience members, a feat he allowed them to believe was due to divine revelation and "God given ability".
Popoff then insists that the subscriber wear the "Miracle Band" while posting him a check for $28.30 (related to Bible (World English)/Exodus#Chapter 28 in some way), in order to receive further instructions on how to use the "Golden Tablet".
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Peter_Popoff   (824 words)

  
 Peter Popoff at AllExperts
Peter Popoff is a U.S. televangelist who has spent most of his career claiming to treat physical ailments with faith healing.
At appearances in the 1980s, Popoff routinely and accurately stated the home addresses and specific illnesses of his audience members, a feat he allowed them to believe was due to divine revelation and "God given ability".
Popoff then insists that the subscriber wear the "Miracle Band" while posting him a check for $28.30 (related to Exodus 28:30 in some way), in order to receive further instructions on how to use the "Golden Tablet".
en.allexperts.com /e/p/pe/peter_popoff.htm   (835 words)

  
 Peter Popoff
Peter Popoff claims to be a faith healer.
However, in 1986 Popoff’s alleged revelations were exposed by hoax debunker James Randi as a scam.
Peter Popoff Is Still At It Some 20 years after he was caught on tape, Popoff has developed a faithful new following — and he is up to his old tricks.
www.apologeticsindex.org /487-peter-popoff   (1193 words)

  
 Peter Popoff - Back To His Old Tricks
Peter Popoff has been "assigned by God to help" me. So I had better listen to my "helper".
I have to ask myself which type of angels Popoff is referring to.
What Peter Popoff didn't realize when he sent me this letter is that my life is already hidden in Christ, and I am also dedicated to exposing and rebuking false teachers and false prophets like Popoff.
www.deceptioninthechurch.com /popoffback.html   (1224 words)

  
 Who is Peter Popoff? Blog
Peter Popoff was indeed proven to be using trickery and he sells this oil for money or that oil for healing.
Popoff simply passed on the information and it seemed, to the congregation, that he was getting messages from God.
Peter popov was busted for recieving electronic messeges from his wife about sick people he was to heal.
christianblogs.christianet.com /peterpopoff.htm   (1339 words)

  
 Peter Popoff korstoget
Han var tydeligvis enten ansatt hos Popoff, eller en frivillig.
En del storrøykere fra Popoffs omgangskrets var lykkelige den dagen.
Popoff trenger ingen nærmere presentasjon her, han ble som vi vet grundig avslørt av CSICOP for åpen scene.
www.skeptica.dk /arkiv_dk2/gordon.htm   (1043 words)

  
 Inside Edition - A Profitable Prophet
Televangelist Peter Popoff claims he is a healer, and appears on infomercials seen across the country performing "miracles." He also says that the power of God flows through him and can cure whatever ails you.
Popoff claimed God spoke directly to him, and seemed to know everything about the people attending his crusades, including their health problems.
Popoff's wife had previously gotten personal information from people in the audience, and then fed it to her husband electronically through an earpiece.
www.insideedition.com /ourstories/print/story.aspx?storyid=639   (531 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In the early 1980's Peter Popoff began ministering on television in the United States.
Popoff claimed that God would speak to him, and tell him specific ailments that people had.
In 1986, James Randi, a famous psychic skeptic, brought a radio scanner to a popoff sermon and intercepted what Popoff was claiming to be the voice of God.
www.indelibility.com /Popoff.htm   (423 words)

  
 ABC News: Send Money, Receive Miracles
The Rev. Peter Popoff says on his television show that he has the key to success and healing: a small plastic packet filled with miracle spring water.
Through the haze of late-night insomniac television viewing, the Rev. Peter Popoff's weekly program may, at first glance, appear to be just another get-rich-quick infomercial.
When Bercier came across Popoff's television ministry, she said she was quickly drawn to him.
abcnews.go.com /2020/Story?id=3164858&page=1   (467 words)

  
 Letter Bombs
Popoff’s last mailing was a Prayer Circle -- actually just a large piece of paper with a big circle drawn on it -- on which I was to kneel.
Popoff instructed me to remove my wallet -- yes, there was a little rectangle for my wallet as well -- and remove a ten dollar bill.
Popoff promised his entire family would then also pray for my prosperity -- which somehow probably wouldn’t include giving me my $10 back.
www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/july95harris.htm   (1139 words)

  
 Peter Popoff 1946 - ?
Popoff was sending this out in a mailing also.
Popoff's apparent ability to know about his audience members' ailments was the central feature of his fraud.
Although Popoff was widely discredited as a fraudulent huckster, he has recently reappeared on late-night U.S. television as a preacher and also in an infomercial.
www.gospelgrace.com /falseprophets/peterpopoff/peterpopoff.htm   (773 words)

  
 Peter Popoff - False Preacher
Popoff had a tendency to pop off with some might high falutin' messages.
Peter Popoff passionately believes the Lord is the hope of His people.
She must have had awfully small credit card bills because I am sure that she received a statement from the bank each month stating what her balance was, so where did this account appear from so unexpectedly.
www.forgottenword.org /popoff.html   (1143 words)

  
 hot reading
The psychic may have an accomplice who chats you up, listens in on your conversations while you are waiting for the reading to begin, or who collects written information from you that is later used in the performance.
At least one faith healer, Peter Popoff, has pretended to get messages from God when he was really getting messages from his wife via an earpiece (Randi 1989: ch.
Popoff got her information from cards that the believers fill out when they attend the faith healing exhibition.
www.skepdic.com /hotreading.html   (547 words)

  
 The High Weirdness Project: Peter Popoff
Peter Popoff is best known as the so-called "faith healer" who was exposed on The Tonight Show during the 1980s.
Popoff's ministry declined in popularity as a result, and he declared bankruptcy in the late 1980s.
Popoff has also been known to use the same tactics as St.
www.modemac.com /cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Peter_Popoff   (388 words)

  
 Camp Neosa Forums: Peter Popoff
Popoff's "cures" included the "wheelchair trick" and the "lengthening of the shortened leg".
During the show, Popoff would command these people to rise from their wheelchairs and walk.
The lengthening of the shortened leg was a bit of sleight-of-hand in which Popoff would seem to cure a deformity by stretching an audience member's leg.
www.campneosa.com /forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=340&PN=1   (570 words)

  
 Deception in the Name of God (courtesy of Peter Popoff)
Peter Popoff is guilty of something known as the "personalized" letter scam (a form of mail fraud).
He makes people believe that he is writing to them personally when in fact it is the work of a computer used by his staff who insert a person's info into the text of a pre-written letter (using the person's name, address and prayer request).
Indeed, if Popoff has no shame or no guilt knowing that he has maligned the name of God and damaged and ruined lives throughout the world the case can be made that he has probably already crossed over into the unpardonable sin (but no one is unredeemable).
www.christianissues.com /trickery.html   (549 words)

  
 Pharyngula: The $23 million dollar man: Peter Popoff
Popoff was discredited by James Randi 20 years ago, as is vividly shown at the link, but he's back now, sucking in millions of dollars every year with his lies.
The woman who sent Popoff her money says that, looking back, she considers herself "a stupid person." The host also claims that the woman feels she was "brainwashed" by watching Popoff on television.
If there were, Popoff would be afflicted with boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
scienceblogs.com /pharyngula/2007/05/the_23_million_dollar_man_pete.php   (3296 words)

  
 disinterested party: Popoff pops up again
Back in the 1980s, Peter Popoff represented all that was honest and decent about faith healers.
In 2005—the most recent year for which numbers are available—the ministry raked in more than $23 million from the godly gullible, and paid Popoff a salary of well over half a million dollars.
The man known as Popoff now claims to be a faith healer who offers free miracle spring water that isn’t free, and a bag of special sea salt, Inside Edition said in its segment on Popoff that aired Tuesday.
www.disinterestedparty.com /archives/2007/02/popoff_pops_up.htm   (408 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
For example, Pat Robertson and Peter Popoff were well-known televangelists who claimed to heal the sick.
Notably James Randi researched Peter Popoff who claimed to heal sick people and give personal details about their lives.
Notably in the 1980s, Peter Popoff encouraged people to throw away their medicine (such an insulin) during his "miracle crusade" when he asserted that he "healed" them.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=faith_healer   (1253 words)

  
 Pulpit Pimps » Blog Archive » Popoff and the Golden Pin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Peter Popoff is a con artist, and not even a very good one.
Here is an interesting “petition to stop Peter Popoff’s lies.” Sadly, you can read through some of the entries and see comments by people who were taken by him.
Peter Popoff sent me a letter in October of 2005 and said God was going to showere down $17,000 upon me. I sowed $17 into his ministry.
www.pulpit-pimps.org /archives/2006/01/05/184   (2627 words)

  
 talin site myspace.com: peter popoff carson randi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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www.angelfire.com /goth/jastinwhite1156/16096332/index7.htm   (3161 words)

  
 Peter Popoff - Reviews on RateItAll
I believe it was PT Barnum who coined the phrase, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Truer words could not be spoken when it refers to prosperity preachers and their gullible christian donors.
Popoff was EXPOSED on TV years ago, showing Popoff to have a hearing device in his ear while his wife spoke to him the information that made the unsuspecting people in Popoff's audience think that he was getting divine revelation.
Peter Popoff IS REALLY A DEMON Demons come in many forms they hide behind God, just like a chicken, which they really are.
www.rateitall.com /i-29391-peter-popoff.aspx   (1199 words)

  
 James Randi Educational Foundation — Home Page
Popoff at it again with a new miracle promise.
The Article goes on to mention Randi's involvement in exposing Popoff back in the 80's.
Special: "The Profitable Prophet" Twenty years ago, Peter Popoff was a televangelist who'd just declared bankruptcy after his preaching methods were exposed as a fraud.
www.randi.org   (705 words)

  
 The Beachwood Reporter
Brief History: Peter Popoff preached his first sermon at age nine and conducted his first crusade at age 14.
It was at this frequency that Randi and a team of researchers sponsored by the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER), intercepted the voice of Popoff's wife, Elizabeth.
What they don't tell you is that when you receive the water, you are instructed to send $17 dollars (the "1" is for one God, and "7" for the number relative to God's perfection) or else God won't bless you.
www.beachwoodreporter.com /tv/peter_popoff_1.php   (671 words)

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