Leap of Faith - Benny Hinn a Dangerous Fake

as we go to air tonight an American evangelist named Benny Hinn will have arrived in Australia to preach to thousands at his Crusades trouble is Benny Hinn is a fake a dangerous fake what he does is prey on the sick the desperate and the gullible the advertisements for his Australian tour say miracle crusade come expecting to receive your miracle will that's simply a lie what we've discovered is that if you go you'll be touched for donations and be caught in a piece of showbiz trickery this Palestinian born preacher man with a Morning Show each day on channel 10 and annual earnings of around 100 million dollars is just a shameless salesman selling false hope when Benny Hinn's last brought his crusade to Australia in January over 20,000 people turned out each night to see him perform at Melbourne zmei er music for they came to see the so-called miracle man one of the superstars of telly evangelism that's another one side what does baby Jesus his daily broadcast is seen in about 80 countries oh Jesus what can we say both thanks what can we say but thanks Benny here is a faith healer at every crusade people claim he's worked a miracle for them curing all kinds of ailment was the pain right here in a bag been done all this where there is gone completely the headquarters of the miracle man are in Orlando Florida not far from that other Magic Kingdom Disney World but getting to meet Benny wasn't easy his gates were closed to us until we told him we were going to do our story with or without his blessing or that of his guardian angels I would wake up at nights and I would see angels in my room at first I did not really understand it it was very it's even now hard to describe really what they look like what did they look like they looked like you and me except you you can see through them wings and hila no I did not see any wings I don't remember any wings but very light very lit up almost like a misty top of a person the rep next to the empty chair Benny's real guardian angels his army of TV producers and directors step by three well that was only inevitable coming to three they choreograph his performances they milk the emotion building the excitement towards each night's well rehearse finale it's all fall down from a dozen different camera angles but the anybody can do it it has nothing to do with God it has to do with suspending critical judgement the Reverend Olli Anthony runs a Christian watchdog group in Dallas he and his staff have studied the Benny Hinn show for years and say it's just a carefully orchestrated exercise in mass hysteria well first of all you're at the first level of hypnosis when you go into the crusade well then you see you've been programmed by seeing it week after week on television of people falling down when he blows on them and then you go there expecting that to happen and then the music repetitive music and the lighting in the crowds and the mono syllabic singing all creates this environment it's just like a stage hypnotist because he's passing out give for you a man told me one day said you are better than PT Barnum I said oh well thank you but let me you know tell you something this is purely the part of God whether you accept it or not but you and I know Benny that they fall over because of the power of suggestion not the power of the law well that's your opinion that's absolutely no no no you've seen the same trick no my friend Lisa let me tell you something now when I lay hands on people they do fall why they fall I don't know but if you lay hands on me here now with the camera zone nothing have you couldn't like me fall down no because there's no anointing right now you can understand something no because there's no way in the world you could make me believe in all I can say well again Jeff that is something you feel and believe you have thousands of people who attended our meetings I've been in this thing for 25 years a lot of practice no no if you think that I can fool all those people than I am you know you can't fool all the people all the time just stretch your hands towards beyond your homes and come put your hands across that screen all that is is the act of faith that's all it is touch every person watch when Benny Hinn urged the sick in his television audience to seek healing from his hands among the desperate who reached out were joann and paul roche of brisbin's jo-ann had just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis i became paralyzed for three months there I couldn't move my arms or my legs and I woke up cross-eyed my basil went over to one size did you see it as an illness or a Satan attack from Satan definitely yeah so Satan can put a family's on anybody it's up to our our belief in God that some that we will be healed from them let's not play games with our eternity when the laying on of television hands didn't work with Joann and her husband Paul went along to the fastest Lisbon crusade I prayed to God and I said God if it um I really believe that you're gonna heal me today and went no I I had a knowing feeling that I was going to be here that day multiple sclerosis is an incurable disease that's right not for God if you're cured it's a miracle that's right yeah God's a God of miracles he's a good god you believe you're totally cure yes yes you believe you've had a miracle that's right when we join Benny Hinn on a crusade in Albuquerque thousands of desperate people turned up to buy what Benny is selling a commodity called Hope televangelism is a three and a half billion dollar a year industry in America alone Benny Hinn is now taking we estimated I think very conservatively that he'll take in seventy five million dollars this year as Benny's world outreach center is registered as a church all of the money the faithfulness stuff into these envelopes is tax-free and once you're on his mailing list you're a target for computer-driven mail-order soliciting we call it a wheel of fortune it's how they get names and addresses and their Crusades like Benny does when it comes to Australia their Crusades are just their television set and so the whole purpose of them is to develop a mailing list and in that mailing list when people call in for prayer or right for prayer then those names are carefully nurtured in a very very sophisticated system of money raising happens I want you to send a special love gift it's going to the Lord look it doesn't go to me it goes to Jesus it goes to his work this isn't about money isn't about these well I was a chef we have to collect offerings I do not apologize for that because we have to pay our bills like anything else we've pay for television time we have a staff of 500 people that we have to pay so I mean money has got to be a part of it but didn't Jesus Drive the money men out of the temple these people that were selling and buying at the temple or making a business out of God's house and this says on here Benny your church says Benny Hinn world outreach Inc right you're a disease - yeah but let me think that didn't Jesus tip your tables over didn't he overturn the vendors didn't he drive them out of the temple again if you read the Gospel as the gospel states I have what had happened it's quite simple these individuals were not out to serve God they were out to serve themselves I had to have a big financial miracle I would not give a dollar I would give a big sacrificial seed believing God for the harvest thank you to keep the millions rolling in Benny has to keep rolling out the miracles I have been in painted February and now and now I don't have any pick up your legs pick up your legs Randall bring her come on run run run run picked up a year ago they said I have asthma and it was eight years ago this month when he shot me and I know Satan just came back did you to tell me that I'm not healed and I'm healed and tonight when we were praising the Lord he touched me he touched me and I revealed and I praise God he has the Lord to heal you sweetheart go ahead before each show many staff go looking for the most telegenic and gullible characters they have no way of knowing whether these people even have the illnesses they claim the very first woman you brought up on stage in Albuquerque what's presented by you as being cured a miraculous walk but we saw her walking and chatting with one of your staff before your show even began let me tell you something that woman was a fake so you admit you have folks my friend we are fixed all the time that come up on the platform and tell me they've been healed you turn the wetware you turn the face in the part of the show I don't know no no no you cannot when I tell people if you believe you've been healed as you heard me to line up on the sides and they do and then we have people down below who check them we cannot be 100% perfect every time we have a hot victims hotline where people call us with their stories and the stories are endless of people who had loved ones died after they proclaimed on television that they were healed having little children told that where they were healed of hearing or eyesight or innumerable and then in the excitement yeah I'm healed I'm healed and they leave the crusade and they still can't see they still can hear and they tell them well the reason you weren't healed is because their secrets in in your life or the reason you weren't heal as you didn't give enough money has anyone really being healed in Benny Hinn's ministry in our research there's not been one person that was healed but you're still you're still on television on your platform making claims of miracle cures that you offer no proof that they may be yet but see look if I go on television I say look I've got a magic pill then but you are this is a magic pill that can cure any disease on earth Jeff I want to vibrate your law wouldn't that I want to correct you for the last time I do not say to the individual you're healed there telling me they've been healed but although we're not the ones claiming they've been healed they're the ones claiming they've been here and that's the danger with Benny Hinn's ministry when he laid hands on Laura twilly two years ago she told everyone it was a miracle cure I have been in the walk at all too much stand and she even threw away her cancer fighting drugs but within two months she was dead that was her last option because the doctors were not delivering the type of results that she wanted and when it came down to the end she she was crushed Laura had told her husband David and their children she wouldn't need doctors anymore she was putting her faith in Benny Hinn and his helpers they prayed for her and told her tonight was going to be her night to be healed and that she would be cured and she would would not need the chemo and the radiation and all of the narcotics that she had been taking for the pain according to her husband she left that auditorium instructed by your staff not to go ahead with her chemotherapy her radiation or even her pain relief Elaine healed I would like to know who the staff member was who said that door I won't allow my staff to say such things and if my staff said that to that John I will call my this man myself and apologize and file the staff member who said it because it's not right to tell people that but it's not an isolated case woman buried here in Houston Texas Joyce Vaughn was another one of the so-called miracle cures at a Benny Hinn crusade hazardous lady had lung cancer she was in this world chair as you were ministry she felt our hate come on her chest as she breathes freely no pain whatsoever she's been healed by God's power this morning her daughter Jackie says Joyce too was persuaded to turn her back on the doctors one of the staff had told her she did not need her medicine anymore because Benny Hinn says she was healed what did the doctor say when she decided then that she was not going to have the killer therapy he was very upset because she needed the chemo she needed it and if God was gonna heal her he or she would be healed either way and she fought with that she tried to call them for them to for questions the staff at Benny Hinn you know the case of Joyce Vaughan the Houston woman I'm sorry not talking about her Joyce form did come on your platform and was presented as having a miracle cure of cancer mm-hmm she died before she died to the distress of her doctor she said she'd been instructed by your staff not to go ahead with her chemotherapy that is absolutely untrue she called to ask them questions because she was so uncertain about everything no one returned the calls she never could get a hold of anybody and so by the time that she decided to go back and take the radiation it had grown did her doctor believe that if Joyce had gone on with the chemotherapy the cancer may have been beaten oh yeah or stayed in remission at least doesn't doesn't that worry you that in fact her life may have been shortened having fallen under the spell of this it bothers me if a staff of mine told her to quit medication or chemo chemotherapy I have never said that to anyone I can tell you here under the anointing it will never come back you will never ever ever now don't hug me do he's not giving people hope any more than Las Vegas is or the lottery yes he's giving people false hope and false hope should always be exposed should always be spoken against now you're healed yeah I feel they feel fresh I feel alive again the truth is the Benny Hinn crusade is out of control he does create false hope and misguided zeal and don't just lift or your hands and thinking for the privileged and those who suffer most are the believers who've fallen under his spell like Queenslander Joanne Roche with your permission we spoke to your doctor and he tells us that you're in remission the truth is I know that I'm healed I know that I'm healed and nothing can tell me I'm not it's not remission is healing you believe God can cure you anyway um God's already done it through Benny Hinn a young lady that had been dealt from the age of four years old with MS was healed this morning completely until her so-called miraculous healings Joanne was using an antiviral drug beat of Fearon to stabilize her multiple sclerosis since Benny Hinn came to town she believes she doesn't need her medicine now your GP still believes that you should be using the Vita theorem that this would manage the illness and possibly delay an attack of acute MS well he hasn't had an encounter with God and we haven't and we know that we're here oh I'm yield and God then Paul knows it so because you can see the difference but has God asked you to stop using the medicine um there's no need to use it there's no nadir no there's no need cuz it's cuz we're healed yeah what worries me most is the woman with MS is not taking the medication that would stabilize her illness her doctor says she still has MS after seeing you she's Vince she's healed okay would you look in that camera and tell her she should take a medication absolutely I want everyone watching me in Australia to please listen to me being him I don't care what else you've heard from other people if you believe you've been healed watching our program or if you came to the crusade please go to your doctor heaven check you before you get read or throw away your medication thank you pleasure would you also tell Australia that you're a man not a messiah absolutely I'm a fool I'm a very I'm very very much a man I've never claimed to be a messiah or anyone special I was in Ghana just recently we had half a million people show up and a man was raised from the dead on the platform that's a fact people I that's a fact a man was raised when Benny Hinn's showed moves on he doesn't get to see the sadness of the families left in his wake Loret Willie's daughters write to their mother every week still trying to understand how she could die after her miracle on one side Lara was telling them that I'm healed you know mommy's better I'm not gonna need the chemo and the radiation but yet on the other hand when she died that was the hardest thing for me to do is to walk in that night and tell the girls that their mother was gone you know what we're gonna do what have we got Sandi's come on why man not yet but why are we gotta send them up to LA me because left okay let go girls what it's the hardest thing and I don't think he understands this is when he puts up this this hope this expectation and yet it doesn't come through when the cameras are turned off and the lights are out and he's out of the building you're left there all alone by yourself and you have to pick up the pieces they move on the only miracle I can see you've worked is that people in 80 countries believe that you can cure incurable diseases that's a miracle again I will say it one more time and with that I'm done that I do not cure never have and never will I use my position to hurt or harm anyone or take hope away and with that thank

Channel: Prove All Things.....

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Rating: 4.0802832 out of 5

Keywords: Benny Hinn (Author), God TV (TV Network), Trinity Broadcasting Network (Organization), Fraud (Crime Type), Deception (Crime Type), 60 Minutes (TV Program)

Id: HH4J75BfPbA

Length: 23min 25sec (1405 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 25 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/tollcrosstim]

My Dad was diagnosed with ALS when I was a child and I lost count of how many of these "crusades" we attended including Benny Hinn. I remember being so hopeful that today would be the day my dad would be healed. And every time destroyed when nothing happened. One time we went to a "prophetic healer" at a regional church. When he heard of my dad he prayed over him and of course nothing happened. This man then went on to say that my dad wasn't being healed because someone in our family was hiding sin from god. I sat there as a five year old contemplating any and all "sins" I had performed. I began to cry and weep. Was I the reason my dad was dying? After the service we got home and my dad sat us all down and I had never seen him so angry. He looked at my siblings with eyes on fire and told us that preacher was wrong and that none of us were to blame. We never went to another "healing" service. Strangely yesterday would have been my dads birthday. He died almost 23 years ago. Fuck Benny Hinn and his ilk.

[u/pfthewall]

In the interview Benny Hinn claims that he's not a fake by saying, "You can't fool all of the people all of the time." Clearly he can't fool all of the people, since he can't fool the man interviewing him.

[u/auntgoat]

My great grandparents lost their life savings to this crook. Died penniless.

[u/muffinlemma]

13:40 Hinn basically says "No no no, I'm not a fraud, the people who come to my events are stupid." False dichotomy lol, both are true.

[u/TerraViv]

This is really unsettling.

[u/ApatheticAnarchy]

In my mid-teens insomnia, I always loved catching Benny Hinn at 1am or so. He just smacked the hell right out of people! Whack whack whack, and down they go. Push one into a crowd, the whole crowd goes down! Swat an oncoming crowd with your jacket and they all fall, just keep swinging! Having seen lower levels of similar hysteria in my own local church, I found it amazing and frightening, but still confounding. Were they plants in the crowd, or just really susceptible to suggestion? Sometimes it looked like he really hauled off and hit someone good, and of course they went down. Did he just really smack the shit out of someone if he didn't think they'd fall voluntarily? I could never tell.