Peter Popoff

[BrideOfChrist]

I'm on vacation this week and am staying up a little later than usual. Last night, I tuned into the WORD Channel and there was some fellow who called himself a prophet named Danny Davis. He was singing the praises of this little vial of "No Evil Oil" that he claimed was consecrated and would heal. Anyone ever heard of him?

Is there no standard at all for who these Christian networks allow on their airwaves?

[Hootmon]

I wouldnt say there were 'no standards', but the bar is set pretty low...

[icebear]

whoo!

do they sell it by the gallon?

did they mention an octane rating?
:slotcar

[LoudRam]

Anyone who calls himself/herself a prophet/prophetess always sends up a red flag with me before anything is said. People love titles that make them feel important or more holy than the rest of us.

I was flipping through the channels one night and came across Peter Popoff selling his "anointed healing oil". My wife seen it and thought it was a SNL skit. I told her this was one of the sideshows our pastor is always talking about. :ohno

BTW...I thought for sure that this was going to be another boycott this countries oil thread. :panic

[bball39]

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/popoffback.html

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id==3164858&page=1

http://www.christianissues.com/trickery.html

[IloveGod76]

Anyone ever heard of him?

What are your thoughts and opinions of him?

[Meeker Morgan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff


During his appearances at church conventions in the 1970s, 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".[2] In 1986 when members of CSICOP reported that Popoff was using a radio to receive messages, Popoff denied it and said the messages came from God.[3] At the time of his popularity, skeptic groups across the United States printed and handed out pamphlets explaining how Popoff's feats could be done.[1] Popoff would tell his audience that the pamphlets were "tools of the devil".[1]

His earlier claims were debunked in 1983 when noted skeptic James Randi and his assistant, Steve Shaw, researched Popoff by attending shows across the country for months. They discovered that radio transmissions were being sent by Peter's wife, Elizabeth Popoff, where she was reading information which she and her aides (Volmer Thrane, the brother of his manager Nancy Thrane, and Reeford Sherrill) had gathered from earlier conversations with members of the audience. Popoff would simply listen to these promptings with his in-ear receiver and repeat what he heard to the crowd. After tapes of these transmissions were played on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Popoff's popularity and viewing audiences declined sharply, and his ministry declared bankruptcy later that year.[1] In September 1987, sixteen months after the Carson airing, Popoff declared bankruptcy with more than 790 creditors having claims against him.[4]

[LindaR]

I didn't even know that Peter Popoff was still preaching his heresies.

[candlelight]

Anyone who calls himself/herself a prophet/prophetess always sends up a red flag with me before anything is said. People love titles that make them feel important or more holy than the rest of us.

I was flipping through the channels one night and came across Peter Popoff selling his "anointed healing oil". My wife seen it and thought it was a SNL skit. I told her this was one of the sideshows our pastor is always talking about. :ohno

BTW...I thought for sure that this was going to be another boycott this countries oil thread. :panic

Peter Popoff has been busted once and I cannot believe people listen to him. He is a LIAR and has been caught. His Wife goes through the crowd with a mini microphone and tells him what is ailing people. When he tells people you have cancer, etc. he already knows. Of course these blinded people don't and think he is this MIGHTY man of God. Disgusting!

[candlelight]

It has been known that those in the audience can wait around for almost two hours before the show and they will be talking among themselves for others to hear and share information. This was a technique Peter Popoff used and was exposed by the magician the amazing Randi as Popoff’s wife fraternized with the people before hand and broadcasted to a hearing aid in his ear the specifics needed for his reading. While Edwards may not have a hearing aid, there is the possibility of his knowing some things about certain people prior to the program. But this does not explain his uncanny ability to be on target for information privy only to those who are in the family.

http://www.letusreason.org/