Miracles For Sale
No doubt my post will be among the thousands of posts being uploaded by bloggers in relation to Derren Brown’s show on channel 4 tonight “Miracles For Sale”. But to come at it from a different angle i’d like like to look at the reasons why Derren Brown wanted to make this particular show.
When Brown was asked by a journalist how he came to be aware of faith healing he answered:
“I grew up a Christian, and only came out of that round the time of university. I was not seeing a lot of it over here but what I did see a lot of was a much lower and harmless level where crowd hype is valued over any kind of personal experience, any depth of faith -…………. I think coming out of Christianity altogether and just having a slightly clearer sense in my own mind of what I believed and what I didn’t believe - I just looked on that as more of a scam. It’s not like psychics and mediums where it’s like, ‘Does it really matter? People get some comfort out of it, they’re just showmen, but does it really matter?’ [Spiritual healing] is genuinely dangerous.”
When asked if he thought some Christian people would see this as an attack upon their religion he answered with:
Of course, that’s a given. I’m sure people will think that and that’s up to them. But it’s very clear in the show, I make the point very clearly and some of the people helping train our fake pastor are Christians themselves that have been in that movement and are just as horrified by it. It’s about that bell curve again - I think people in the middle will see beyond the fact that we’re talking about Jesus. That shouldn’t immediately make it offensive, when you actually look at what we’re doing. This comes just as much from a distaste as a Christian I had as much as just a human being looking at exploitation.”
I think this TV show was made with the utmost sincerity by a guy who felt he could no longer sit back while innocent people were exploited both emotionally and financially. The faith healing movement along with the prosperity gospel has a lot to answer for. They have muddied the waters to the point where the truth can be hard to see, which in turn leaves people in a spiritual wilderness.
If you wish to read the whole interview, it can be found at the link below
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/interviews/a315672/derren-brown-derren-brown-miracles-for-sale.html
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