Bad, very bad things need to happen to the good “Reverend”. I get really angry every time his commercial is aired. He’s a filthy shyster.

I'm not familiar with the name, but is he the one with the 110 degree hydrogen bond angle water nonsense?

No, this weasel claims financial gains will be yours with the purchase of a teabag sized packet of his miracle water. Don’t know if you’re supposed to drink it, pour it over yourself or what.

Continuing to take advantage of the ill, disadvantaged and vulnerable of this world. Somehow he survives.

He’s a slug.

He’s been a charlatan for decades. It’s pretty much common knowledge.

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It’s pretty much common knowledge.

Evidently not common enough if he’s still fleecing people.
I hadn’t heard his name in a long time, so I guess that’s yet one more benefit of not watching the teevee. Thanks for letting me know that he is still around.

That POS was soundly and definitively debunked on national TV...yet he came back from bankruptcy to hock his "Miracle Spring Water", which he himself admits is ordinary H20.

You're supposed to annoint yourself with the water, then send Petey a check for $27...and wait for a never-ending onslaught of mailers promoting the next step of your healing journey (all requesting further donations, oddly enough).

So, what do you think? Forum group buy (I mean donation)? How much water should we get?

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It's scary that he has the money to advertise it so much. The water looks like it's in a ketchup packet and all these people say they bought the water and the next day a check for some high sum showed up in their mail. Sad he isn't in jail. It's like those invent companies

Man, finding out this lowlife has been doing this scam for as long as he has just pisses me off even more!

I remember Brother Al, radio huckster, hustling "prayer cloths". Five bucks each in the 60's.

Yeah...I think Sheldon has the proper approach to this:



First time I saw that advertisement, my first thought was "SNAKE OIL SALESMAN"!!!! Like P.T. Barnum said..."a sucker is born every minute".

You either pay him or pay the Microsoft Tech Support guy with "accent" that calls you all the time.

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Originally posted by clubleaf206:
No, this weasel claims financial gains will be yours with the purchase of a teabag sized packet of his miracle water. Don’t know if you’re supposed to drink it, pour it over yourself or what.

I think you misunderstood him. He said financial gains will be mine if you buy the water.

Jesus chased his ilk out of the Temple with whip in hand.

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Jesus chased his ilk out of the Temple with whip in hand.

If you mean people that were taking financial advantage of the faithful, then yes, Jesus did chase merchants and moneychangers out of the temple.

But Poppoff takes it even further, by claiming to work/facilitate miracles. I don't believe the Bible ever records Jesus directly interacting with any false prophets/con men who were falsely claiming to work miracles in his name, although he did warn in several different sermons that they would appear.

It appears that Paul's encounter with Elymas in Acts 13 is the only direct encounter with a false prophet related in the New Testament, resulting in Paul rebuking Elymas and invoking the Holy Spirit to strike him blind.

In my generation it was Ernest Angley...

Same schtick...

If you’ve seen one of these tv preachers with slicked back hair, you’ve seen ‘ em all. These “customers” vote, YIKES!!

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I remember Brother Al, radio huckster, hustling "prayer cloths". Five bucks each in the 60's.

Oral Roberts did the same thing, in his case they sent a square of cheesecloth (after a donation had been made), you placed it on your arthritic knee, brain tumor or whatever and sent it back (no doubt with another donation) where it would then be prayed over. So, you didn’t even have the crappy piece of cheesecloth to show for it.

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Originally posted by clubleaf206:
No, this weasel claims financial gains will be yours with the purchase of a teabag sized packet of his miracle water. Don’t know if you’re supposed to drink it, pour it over yourself or what.

I think you misunderstood him. He said financial gains will be mine if you buy the water.

That’s funny, right there.