Miracle Spring Water, Anointed Faith Tool AND Debt Cancellation!

[onager]

Speaking of Faith Tools...the Subject line is the latest scam by our old buddy, Peter Popoff. And his charming wife Elizabeth (who bears an eerie resemblance to that Lion-Woman recently posted by Heddi).

Some of you know Popoff as the faith-healer who was busted by James Randi back in the 80's. Popoff wore a micro-earphone thru which his wife relayed info about his suckers supplicants. Randi counter-bugged the pair and hilarity ensued.

Yesterday morning I turned on the TV and caught a few minutes of Popoff's latest BS. "Miracle Spring Water" is self-explantory, and the "Anointed Faith Tool" is a cheap, tacky picture of Jesus with some crap written on it.

Used together, they can magically cancel all your current debt and put money in your pocket! I guess debt-healing is a better racket than faith-healing these days.

I made a few notes...

"I won $2500 in a lottery, then $1300 in another lottery. And I was cured of a soreness."

The "soreness" makes me wonder if this person has been hanging around with Catholic priests. But that would be mean, so I won't type it. Oh, wait...

"Miraculously and supernaturally cancel ALL your debts!" - Popoff kept repeating that line, which I guess gets him off the hook with the FCC and other govt. agencies. Though it shouldn't.

"And it's absolutely FREE!" - only it's not, because Popoff also reminds the listeners: "To get something from God, you have to GIVE something to God!"

Uh-huh.

Here's a link to Popoff's Godly Debt Cancellation site. Warning: audio starts as soon as you hit the site, with lots of testimonials. The very same testimonials I saw him using on TV, in fact.

http://www.peterpopoffministries.com/index.php

[mr blur]

1. Whackjob Alert!

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2. Great work! Thanks!

Another sort of strange thing I noticed - Popoff's show was on Black Entertainment Television (BET, on cable).

He was followed by a couple of talk shows, featuring Wendy Williams and Mo'Nique.

Popoff certainly isn't a black person, though many of his followers were. I guess he fits into the "inspirational" category of the channel, though the only thing he inspires in me is the gag reflex.

Totally OT and irrelevant: the name "Wendy Williams" always reminds me of the 80's pop/porn star Wendy O. Williams, lead singer for The Plasmatics.