![]() And please do it now, while you’re thinking about it-with fewer people paying attention to the news like you are, we need everyone with us to get there.A 2010 State Department notes that preaching about Christianity and all other religions is legal. If you can afford to part with a few bucks, please support the reporting you get from Mother Jones with a much-needed year-end donation. And please do it now, while you’re thinking about it-with fewer people paying attention to the news like you are, we need everyone with us to get there. And given everything, reporting like ours is vital right now. We operate on razor-thin margins in an unfathomably hard news business, and can’t afford to come up short on these online goals. The upshot? Mother Jones does journalism you don’t find elsewhere: in-depth, time-intensive, ahead-of-the-curve reporting on underreported beats. In “ Let the Facts Speak for Themselves” we give it our best shot, answering three questions that most any fundraising should try to speak to: Why us, why now, why does it matter? So we’re going to try making this as un-annoying as possible. It’s the most important month of the year for our fundraising, with upward of 15 percent of our annual online total coming in during the final week-and there’s a lot to say about why Mother Jones’ journalism, and thus hitting that big number, matters tremendously right now.īut you told us fundraising is annoying-with the gimmicks, overwrought tone, manipulative language, and sheer volume of urgent URGENT URGENT!!! content we’re all bombarded with. THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.Īt least we hope they will, because that’s our approach to raising the $350,000 in online donations we need right now-during our high-stakes December fundraising push. If they really were into the genuine article, perhaps they’d heal their hair.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. You have these guys-the very guys that are pandering this kind of stuff-walking around with bad toupees. But they can’t heal people of organic diseases. And so can today’s evangelists and faith teachers. The truth of the matter is this: Mesmer could heal people of psychosomatic illnesses by psychosomatic cures. Now a lot of evangelists in the counterfeit revival are saying the exact same thing. There was no illusion whatsoever that this had anything to do with spirituality. If you go back to Franz Mesmer in the 18th century, he would simply point a finger in the direction of one of his devotees, and instantly they would begin to jerk spasmodically. People are roaring like lions, barking like dogs, writhing on the floor, jerking spasmodically, laughing uncontrollably, and they think this has to be the Holy Ghost. When people have no barometer for truth whatsoever, anything can go. Counterfeit revivalists say-and this is one of the mantras you hear over and over again-”God offends the mind to reveal the heart.” In other words: “Don’t think about this critically- accept it uncritically.” But in Scripture we’re told to be “alert and sober-minded.” We’re not supposed to be out of control. A cultist always dulls the critical thinking faculty, because the mind is seen to be the obstacle to enlightenment. ![]() And they’re found in the world of the occult. They’re characteristic of neurological diseases such as palsy. These manifestations are explainable by natural causes. That’s not only dangerous from a spiritual standpoint, it’s also dangerous from a physical standpoint, because the cervical spine is not set up for that kind of motion. One lady was waving her head back and forth wildly for two and a half hours while I was there she’s been doing it for one and a half years. I was down in Pensacola, Florida, at an Assemblies of God church. The principles of sociopsychological manipulation that have been used by stage hypnotists are now being used by pastors. The kinds of things that have been commonplace in carnivals and communes are now center stage in the church. ![]() The following is Hanegraaff’s explanation, excerpted from an August radio interview conducted by Hugh Hewitt, guest host on the nationally syndicated “Michael Reagan Show.” According to Hanegraaff (who is a fundamentalist Christian), the only true path to God is-what else?-the Bible. While many see a spiritual revival in the recent rise of Pentecostalism and faith healers, Hank Hanegraaff, Christian radio’s wildly popular “Bible Answer Man” and author of Counterfeit Revival, sees nothing short of a hoax. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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