A deluge of solicitation letters and token enclosures would follow, requesting more donations in exchange for miracles. Prestigious debunker James Randi exposed the trick on national television, and Popoff was never heard from again. In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary An Honest Liar, we find out how magician-turned-debunker of psychics James "The Amazing" Randi worked with an undercover surveillance expert to expose how popular televangelist and "faith healer" Peter Popoff was deceiving his audience into believing he was conversing with And since Hell (probably) doesn't exist, the only winner here is Popoff. [48] Financial data is not available for Popoff's ministry since 2005 because Peter Popoff Ministries changed from a for-profit business to a religious organization in 2006, making it tax-exempt. British telecommunications regulator Ofcom (UK Office of Communication) has fined a UK television network for airing the program of discredited TV If you remember reading about the Protestant Reformation and Martin Luthers criticism of selling indulgences, you know religious exploitation is nothing new. Instead, they seek what we all seek: hope that our lives will improve, that someone cares and that theres more than whats readily seen by the eye. You've been to Europe? Once a follower requested the prayer cloth and input his or her address, letters asking for money were dispatched. They give money; he sends them trinkets. In 1989, Bakker was convicted on 29 counts including mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy, and sentenced to 45 years in prison. And the hair truly is something, shiny and monochrome like an action figure's. [26] Although donations had exceeded over half a million dollars monthly,[27] his ministry's viewer ratings and donations declined significantly after the Carson airing, and in September 1987 he declared bankruptcy, listing more than 790 unpaid creditors and a ministry debt of over $1 million, and personal debts of almost half that. All proof of the miracle water's efficacy. What followed was a House of Cards-worthy circle of blackmail that saw Gorman reinstated and Swaggart taken off the air for a spell. Duplantis argued that it was the love of money, not money itself, thats bad. CLEVELAND, October 29, 2014 - Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE:PH), the global leader in motion and control technologies, today announced that Peter Popoff, Vice President and President - Filtration Group, age 62, will retire effective February 1, 2015, after 36 years of dedicated service to Parker. Peter filed for bankruptcy in 1987. Squinting through a window, past venetian blinds, I glimpsed a carpeted foyer, and beyond that, an empty room. As previously mentioned, Popoff has something of a checkered past. His whole life was all about spreading the news. According to publicly available IRS forms, by 2003, Popoff 's new organization was netting over $9 million a year and Popoff was paying himself and his wife a combined salary of more than half a million dollars a year; their son, daughter, and son-in-law were each netting over a hundred grand. Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist and debunked clairvoyant and faith healer. Peter Popoff Biography The birth name of this Con man and televangelist is Peter Popoff. In the late 1980s he was exposed as a fraud on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. (Turned out, an But in 2006, it reorganized and aligned itself with a small ministry called Word for the World, which operated out of a tiny storefront church in Farmers Branch, Texas. When I was born, we traveled in a trailer.. He's the founder of the Daystar Television Network, the second-largest Christian TV network on Earth. Back in the '70s and '80s, Swaggart was one of the most influential evangelical preachers in America. She never took very many steps, but she vibrated with energy. [13], Popoff's methods were definitively exposed in 1986 by the magician and skeptic James Randi and his associate Steve Shaw, an illusionist known professionally as Banachek, with technical assistance from the crime scene analyst and electronics expert Alexander Jason. He went bankrupt, he lost everything he had, he had to start over. This lady came in, and everyone said she was nuts, Sanchez told me. He was exposed in 1986 for using a concealed earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife, who gave him the names, addresses, and ailments of audience members during Popoff-led religious services. Anyway, then he did it all again three years later and lost everything. He worked the aisles for two hours that night, back and forth, until finally he was in my section. When I asked how I could have hair like his when I got older, he quoted Exodus: I am the Lord thy God that heals thee! That's the promise that God gave to Israel. Both men went into the family business, suffered reversals, went bankrupt, seemed destined to be TV-rerun laughingstocks. He wants it that way, so there is no question about where the money goes. As I sat with the gregarious, affable Popoff, I understood: He believes he is helping people. The prevailing sentiment in the room was Thanks be to Godbut also Thanks be to Peter Popoff. The real clincher, Sanchez said, was when they started asking for all your gold, your trinkets, your heirlooms. On her second day on the job, opening envelopes, she counted about $30,000 in donationsin a room filled with about 20 other women doing the same job. Interestingly, it also states in Matthew that Jesus said, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." [49] He drives a Porsche and a Mercedes-Benz. Yeah, they deliver it right here, he said. [42] Popoff also started referring to himself as a prophet. In a broadcast from 2015, Duplantis and fellow preacher Kenneth Copeland said it was because regular airliners are filled with people who would constantly be asking them to pray. Wayfair Huge Deal-A-Thon - Up to 60% off everything! He works hard for his money. Peter Popoff is the all-American faith healer because he inhabits both hemispheres of our national brain, the Puritan and the magician. ", James Randi exposes Uri Geller and Peter Popoff, Skeptics with a K Episode 157 (A special episode covering Marshal Masters visit to Popov's London gathering), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Popoff&oldid=1129525069, Religious controversies in the United States, Articles with incomplete citations from November 2012, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2021, Pages using Sister project links with default search, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 25 December 2022, at 22:14. For the Lord worketh in mysterious ways. Tilton's rebuttal? We started talking. Billy James Hargis ran into some trouble when two members of his congregation got married and, surprise, revealed that neither of them were virgins on account of Billy James Hargis. He lost. Because it is categorized as a parsonage. He is popular for being a Religious Leader. After the bankruptcy, Popoff, like some of his fellow Pentecostal preachers, receded somewhat from view. He got a jet. In theory, it's a beautiful way to spread a message of faith to the masses. Sometimes, Sanchez said, those taken in by Popoff's message would breach security. A loving wife. It's hard to escape the parallels with another baby boomer, a man born just two weeks before Popoff in the summer of '46, just before the United States entered its long, hopeful postwar expansion. Actions like that should be red flags for congregation members, but like the big questions in life, even minute dealings with religion are complicated. Border guards who could have had him arrested let him pass because they were hungry to know about God. In 1982 the AP reported on Popoff's use of helium balloons to deliver Bibles and gospel pamphlets from Finland into the Soviet Union. It all started in 1969 with a small ministry an hour outside Hollywood run by married couple Tony and Susan Alamo (ah-LAH-mo, but who cares). He once sued Hustler for $45 million because they ran a parody piece making fun of him, and took the case all the way to the supreme court. In May 2018, the famed television minister put out a call to action. We go through Poland Spring.. If news vans come by, the receptionist or security guy, whoever sees it first, she notified all the top people, letting them know the building is on lockdown.. He'll do the work, all right, and your part is just suspending disbelief and sending him a check to show that you mean it. I had found Sanchez after reading The Real Truth Behind People United for Christ, the e-book detailing her time there that she self-published in 2013. There's nothing magical about them, he said about the spring water, the baruch wallet, and all the stuff I'd gotten in the mail. I measure it out and add it into the drums.. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories. He went on to say that "on the days it didn't show, you still had to pay for the auditorium, so you needed to help the Holy Spirit along. In that year, he and his wife were paid a combined salary of nearly $1 million, while two of his children received over $180,000 each. One time they came with 130 gallon-size jugs.. [17] On subsequent broadcasts, he tearfully begged for additional donations to help repair the damage. Among other things, she's a hard and fast believer in the prosperity gospel, and also claims that all world leaders are put in power by divine grace and that to disagree with them is to disagree with the will of God, shining a whole new light on the place of pharaohs in society. Listening through the gizmo in his ear, Popoff would call out to the crowd as if he possessed the omniscience of the Lord. If they weren't noticeably rich, what authority would they have to promise riches to others? Skelton wanted to make it clear, before we talked about his friend Popoff, that faith healing was real. I believe God has given you a divine chiropractic treatment! Prosperity preacher buys jet, mansion with church dollars, LSU Manship student dies in hospital after being struck by vehicle, Greek Life alumni discuss friendships after graduation: 'You have a group of friends who you can count on', Spring back into the semester: Fun events and activities for LSU students, LSU to make 121 Native American skeletal remains available for return to tribes by end of 2023, Report: Former five-star quarterback Walker Howard enters transfer portal, Opinion: Goal-setting is important for young adults, This Week In Baton Rouge: LSU Gymnastics, Involvement Fest, Yappy Hour, How much do LSU football players eat? In the previous decade, he'd founded the Moral Majority PAC shortly after an all-white Christian academy that he founded was threatened with losing its tax exempt status due to new legislation regarding segregated schools. Hallelujah! His latest puckish misadventure: getting sued by the state of Missouri for selling a fake coronavirus cure. [11], Popoff married his wife Elizabeth in August 1971[12] and the couple settled in Upland, California. Peter Popoff says hes a healer and a prophet of God. Unfortunately for Swaggart, hell hath no fury like a minor television celebrity scorned, and Gorman had Swaggart followed and photographed during a rendezvous with a local prostitute. We were taping television! Like so many televangelists, Popoff had his heyday in the 1980s, back when preaching on TV was big businessand plenty mainstream. [46] Popoff purchased a home in Bradbury, California, for $4.5 million in 2007. [50], The radio transmitter incident was parodied in the 1989 movie "Fletch Lives". Apparently, plants in the audience would chat people up or get them to jot down details, then feed their information to Liz, who passed it on to her husband through an earpiece. Popoff's employees are on guard for more than just the media. God decides what prayers to answer. [2][43], Popoff's operation had functioned as a for-profit company until 2006, when it merged with a small church in Farmers Branch, Texas called Word for the World, which operated out of a storefront. He claimed to be able to diagnose (and cure) any of his churchgoers' hidden diseases just by asking the He added that "almost everybody" knew about the radio communication system. [36], In 2008, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom issued strong warnings to broadcasters for transmitting Popoff's material, which the regulator felt promoted his products "in such a way as to target potential susceptible and vulnerable viewers". [32][33][34][35] In July 2008, a Nanaimo, British Columbia resident was reimbursed by Popoff after she went public with her concerns over his fundraising tactics. The other, somebody higher up, told me that the distribution of the miracle spring water was subcontracted to a packaging plant in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [11] The powers he claimed included the abilities to heal the sick and foretell the future. Then He Made the Most Liberating Music of His Career. He thought for a moment, then replied that, yes, Popoff was the real deal. Popoff yanked her cane away and tossed it up onstage. If you learn one thing today, let it be this: America is the land of second chances, and televangelism is the seedy island territory just offshore where we house third, fourth, and fifth chances. They want to take the stand. Among his other supposed accomplishments: his doctorate in philosophy, his two bachelor's degrees, and the somewhere-between-two-and-five wounds he accumulated in Vietnam. [20] Skeptic groups distributed pamphlets explaining how Popoff's feats could be accomplished without any sort of divine intervention. Every kind of sickness. He had everything. 20 Dislike Share. It went back to the pits of hell!. His ministry became so popular that he attracted between 8,000 and 10,000 worshipers to his megachurch every week, and his broadcasts brought in scores of letters with personal requests for prayer and (naturally!) Akil Sharif Bey. He gets rich, you get hope. According to him, three women who had previously worked for him had threatened to go public with the information if they weren't paid $7.5 million. Credit.com wrote a blog post concerning Popoff's claims. Tilton's message has been clear from the start: Poverty is the result of sin, and also please send money. According to Duplantis, God personally told him that He wants him flying in that particular plane, presumably because the Good Lord would never expect his followers to fly Southwest. Which complicates any theory that he is trying to get something for nothing. It's true. Soon after the "healing", they watched her quietly leave the room. The resulting backlash was split. In fact, maybe he realized that today, more than ever, we are primed for what he has to sell. Sorry, that was a typo. If God created man and man created the small two-way radios that Popoff and an assistant used to have secretly communicate while Popoff was performing, then hallelujah. They did not want to comment on Crystal Sanchez's allegations in her e-book. His home town is West Berlin. Like Popoff, they used the offer of a religious trinket (a free prayer cloth) to compile an address list. Ah, but here in America, time absolves all that. [40], In the mid-2000s, Popoff began to offer "Miracle Spring Water" on late-night infomercials in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. It's not something I snapped my fingers and it magically appeared. The water, he claimed, was drawn from a spring near Chernobyl, Ukraine (site of the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster). I knew there had been scams. When he exposed fellow TV preacher Marvin Gorman for having extramarital affairs, that guy wound up out of a job. Auditors come in every year. Prayer Request Form Peter Popoff Ministries Prayer Request Form I want to Pray with you! On December 21, Peter Popoff welcomed me into his office, where we were joined by Amy and Nick, the two children who work in the ministry (another son, Alexander, is in the military). Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has given permission for his private jet to be used in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines' flight MH370, according to the New Zealand Herald. Like, 1,500 people followed him. There was no church sign outsideand certainly no sign of a church inside. He then began his television ministry that, by the early 1980s, was being broadcast nationally. The personification of this phenomenon might well be Peter Popoff. donations. Billy James Hargis was the grandpappy of many televangelist trends, like mail fraud and swearing that the broadcast would go off the air if people didn't send money ASAP. With his grinning California charm, charismatic preaching methods, and Mother Goosian alliterative name, Popoff was the man to see in the '80s for revival services and quick We preach financial blessings. Now classified as a church, Popoff's corporation no longer had to report annual income or salary to the IRS. If you can take that by faith, you'll live a life of increase. And great hair. He's an archduke, and his armies march on Luxembourg this very night. Ad Choices. Sitting on a stage, in an upholstered chair, Popoff implored his television audience to call an 800 number so that he could send them a secret faith tool that God had recently given him as he was praying about the four red moons of this year of Jubilee. If that wasn't incentive enough, there was more reason to reach for the phone. His wife eyed me warily. [47] In 2003, his ministry received over $9.6 million, and in 2005, over $23 million. At about half past noon, he and his wife pulled into the driveway, back from church, I figured. And I venture to say anyone doing TV programs He trailed off, as if he were saying something so obvious it didn't bear finishing. Meanwhile, as chief administrative officer (Amy) and executive vice president (Nick), they prosper alongside him. Golding Jun 25, 2019 Discussion EtcetEra Forum Golding Member Oct 25, 2017 1,991 Jun 25, 2019 #1 What is going on here? They are simply points of contactthey help people focus their prayer. Popoff refused to comment. He dared you to doubt him, which helped insulate him from charges that he was a fraud. As reported by UPI, when Jim Bakker bounced out of PTL in 1987, he became concerned that his ministry was about to be the subject of a hostile takeover by Jimmy Swaggart, who initiated the investigation into the Bakker clan. Popoff, along with Don Stewart and Robert Tilton, received "criticism from those who say that preachers with a long trail of disillusioned followers have no place on a network that holds itself out as a model of entrepreneurship for the black community". Sometimes, the best we can do is point out inconsistencies. 28. But one by one, they fell to disgrace: Jim Bakker paid off a woman who'd accused him of rape; Jimmy Swaggart was caught with a prostitute at a roadside motel. Appliances had been delivered. Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. By the end of that year, we were back to where we were. He said that they never went off the air, never stopped doing live shows. Jones figured out who Ted was during his non-meth-and-solicitation hours and blabbed to the press. The earpiece, I realized, was always an unnecessary gimmick. Or kidney problems, a bum ticker, thyroid. Ernest Angley has been having a rough go of things lately. I held up my broken finger. Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist and debunked clairvoyant and faith healer. Peter Popoff was back. They moved into radio, then television. There's a lot of ground to cover with Jerry Falwell. Before I knew it, he was upon me. Popoff falsely claimed God revealed this information to him so that Popoff could pretend to cure them through faith healing.[1]. So that every little package of water contains a few molecules of holiness. It's been a long and winding road!. Negative, captain. For other people with the name, see. This was vintage stuffa sort of resurrection, if you will. Billy James Hargis was resolute. It never ends.Dave opens even more Peter Popoff religious scam mail.#PeterPopoff #MiracleWater #SCAM The distinction between the two becomes difficult to make, however, when Duplantis has been caught using the church-funded jet for multiple vacations, including a 17-day trip to Hawaii that racked up a calculated $40,000 in fuel and storage fees. Popoff is of the same generation as Bruce Springsteen, and he clearly shares the Boss's compulsion to never let an audience down. [52] A 2012 Broadway musical adaptation of the same title was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. Peter Popoff inhabits both hemispheres of our national brain, the Puritan and the magician. Their methods were questionable and their message was a horror show, but otherwise, it was an unspectacular enterprise. I wasn't aware yet of the ski vacations or his affinity for tennis or how much he adored his Bentley. Animals and humans drinking from the spring were purportedly spared radiation sickness. The workload depended on what Popoff was saying on his paid television spots. Regular meth-fueled hookups with a male prostitute named Mike Jones. (You remember Jesus. [citation needed], The 1992 Steve Martin dramedy Leap of Faith was inspired by Popoff's fraudulent ministry, and demonstrated a number of the techniques Popoff and other televangelist scammers use to create the illusion of divine intervention. It's now worth 10 million! he said. What troubles you? he asked. [6] As a child, Popoff emigrated with his family to the United States, where he attended Chaffey College before transferring to the University of California, Santa Barbara, from which he graduated in 1970. Cookie Duration Description; cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics: 11 months: This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The night that I was healed and hugged by Peter Popoff, I saw no sign that he was using an earpiece. She'd sold all her belongings. A few months ago, I flew to Texas and tried to visit Word for the World on a Sunday morning, hoping to catch a rousing Pentecostal service. I was flitting between channels when I happened upon BET. I'll tell you where that pain went. Almost immediately the letters began to come. What is there to say about it that hasn't already been said in countless documentaries, exposs, and depositions? You could see, there was no fakery to it. Though he didn't focus on TV, he lived the good life as a minister and Christian comedian, traveling the world spreading his message that the devil is coming for you and you'd better be ready to fight him. Did he fear God just enough to gesture toward authenticity, so that if he was ever questioned at the pearly gates about the millions of dollars of other people's gold and silver and Social Security money, he could say that in every New Jersey-packed packet of holy water there was a minuscule amount of blessing? 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