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Stephen · #10 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Eoghan

I used to think that charismatics were fairly harmless physically, even if dangerour spiritually. I revise that opinion when encountering examples of people who have died as a consequence of failing to take medication or medical treatment after falling under the sway of some charismatic Svengali.

Evangelist sued for claiming that God heals - Independent Online Edition > Americas

BBC NEWS | Americas | US boy dies during 'exorcism'

or consider the 90+ deaths attributed to Hobart Freedman Hobart Freeman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We really need to warn people that charismatic movement can be dangerous

physically as well as spiritually.

These are great links and this is only the icing on the cake. What about the number of people who died after being healed by Oral Roberts or Benny Hinn? I visited a young boy in the hospital a few years ago who was dying from lukemia. His mother just brought him back from Hinn's crusade where he was "healed" from cancer. I ministered to him and his mother and he died 2 weeks later. The mother was devasted because she was told he was healed.