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The Daily Mess Why Do Preachers Pretend To Be Healers Plus Do They Still Travel · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: the dude that's always asking questions because I have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun doing the research to find answers. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: why do faith healers whack people upside the head and
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  Speaker 1: shout out, heal? Plus, Are there still traveling medicine shows
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  Speaker 1: in the United States? My name is Arrow. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: This is The Daily Mess. Why do faith healing preachers
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  Speaker 1: whack people upside the head, then shout out, heal? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's because it's a tradition. That's it. That's what it says.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tradition. In some faith healing traditions, the physical
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  Speaker 1: act is treated as a dramatic outburst of energy, a
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  Speaker 1: sign of spiritual power. During this moment of energy, shouting
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  Speaker 1: healed is seen as a religious symbolism. It's absolutely theatrical intensity.
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  Speaker 1: The loud voice suddenly makes a movement. There's music. There's
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  Speaker 1: a live crowd. It tends to fill a serious void
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  Speaker 1: in someone's life. Expectations and suggestions. Now, people actually believe
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  Speaker 1: that they're being healed. To make it even more special
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  Speaker 1: is how each televangelist has developed their own technique. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 1: There's an important distinction here. A dramatic reaction from the
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  Speaker 1: one being healed isn't proof that the medical condition has
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  Speaker 1: indeed been healed. I did say televangelist. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: The actual invention of a faith-healing preacher didn't come from TV. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: hell no. Its roots stretch all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: American revivals in Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. It's well written
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  Speaker 1: that the first faith healer known to the masses began
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  Speaker 1: in 1901 in Topeka, Kansas. It was Mr. Charles Fox Parnum. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like a faith healer, doesn't it? Mr. Charles
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  Speaker 1: Fox Parnum. Then there was the 1906 Azusa Street Revival
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And let us be told that you
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  Speaker 1: are healed. Coming up next, what are some of the
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  Speaker 1: modern day traveling medicine men shows? Hey, welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the Daily Mess. What are some of these modern day
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  Speaker 1: traveling medicine men shows? Hold on a second here. We
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  Speaker 1: got to define this. What is a traveling medicine man show? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's a person or persons who travel from city to city,
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  Speaker 1: creating a big spectacle, promising extraordinary results and make money
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  Speaker 1: through their audiences, through hype as well as belief. You
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  Speaker 1: ready for this? The closest thing to modern day traveling
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  Speaker 1: medicine men shows are the faith healing evangelists, such as
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  Speaker 1: Benny Hanna. He's the top dog. He's one of the
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  Speaker 1: very few who actually speaks about traveling the world to
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  Speaker 1: heal one and all. Another traveling medicine man show is
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  Speaker 1: the Prosperity Gospel Healing Conferences. Oh, you've got to be
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  Speaker 1: familiar with these. A long list of well-known sports and
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  Speaker 1: business figures here. actors and these rich people with a
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  Speaker 1: structure and a presentation that says, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: you the VIP treatment. This is what makes it a
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  Speaker 1: traveling medicine show. The social media and the advertising are
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  Speaker 1: inviting each and every one of us to come see
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  Speaker 1: this amazing experience. And while you're here, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: just go ahead and buy this miraculous cure? You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a book or you can make a donation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's what's funny. There's actually a group of people called
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  Speaker 1: the Medicine Show Revival. And yeah, they deliberately recreate the
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  Speaker 1: Traveling Medicine Show. Their medicine isn't snakes, but rather community.
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  Speaker 1: You gonna buy into that? I'm Arrow, and that's The
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