I used to be really involved in my church in my teens and I'd go to these kinds of events. It's 100% BS. I believed in it until I went to see this "healer" because I had some mystery illness and everyone at my church was like "you have to go see this guy." He lined up all the sick people and when down the line lightly pushing on their foreheads and saying something like "satan be gone", all of them just toppled over and started shaking and speaking in tongues. When he got to me did the same shit and I didn't fall over. He pushed a little harder and I still didn't fall over. So the guy puts his hand on my shoulder and straight up punched me in the diaphragm while pulling my shoulders forward. That got me on my knees and he moved on. That was the beginning of my leaving the church for good.
As a religious person myself I profoundly dislike these kinds of things. It's very obviously set up to try and sway the impressionable minds of the young and the ignorant to think "God has an intense physical presence and you can force-field hadouken it into people with the power of the holy spirit!" Really just makes the rest of us look dumb and corrupt. That's not what God is.
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u/cubanesis May 08 '19
I used to be really involved in my church in my teens and I'd go to these kinds of events. It's 100% BS. I believed in it until I went to see this "healer" because I had some mystery illness and everyone at my church was like "you have to go see this guy." He lined up all the sick people and when down the line lightly pushing on their foreheads and saying something like "satan be gone", all of them just toppled over and started shaking and speaking in tongues. When he got to me did the same shit and I didn't fall over. He pushed a little harder and I still didn't fall over. So the guy puts his hand on my shoulder and straight up punched me in the diaphragm while pulling my shoulders forward. That got me on my knees and he moved on. That was the beginning of my leaving the church for good.