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What I find odd is rich families that fund this type of "research" or "faith healing" often send their own kin to the mental health institutions in Minnesota.
So if their money is good enough for these "researchers" and "faith healers" then its good enough for their own family members, but obviously not.
I also noticed how the "researchers" and "faith healers" were extremely patronizing, rude, and condescending towards the freaking out person.
If you want to know if someone is a fraud then give him/her a battery of psychological tests before judging their diagnosis. that should be a dead give away right there that thes professional "healers" "researchers" are fakes.
We have something called "Teen Challenge" here in Minneapolis. No therapy, none of them see a shrink or therapist and they continue to recieve increased federal, state, and LGA funding on top of private funding while actual treatment centers have had their budgets cut by 40% pushing patients in need into juvenile delinquency centers.
While treatment centers (mental institutions) grant a whooping 40% improvment, the "Teen Challenge" often finds their clients on the streets, in jails and continueing drugs on the range of 80% recidivism. Hence "Teen Challenge's" program of faith healing has actually worsen the lives of their clients and society in general.
Besides doesn't the Quran say "go to the professional to seek advice"? I believe "faith healing" is just another form of rejecting western science. Besides many of the Greek scientific texts that Aveiros (?)Rushidi and others translated (I think aristotle started the basis of psychological evaluation) and "talk therapy" was introduced by physicians during early caliphate history in Baghdad.
If it was good enough for Muslims in Baghdad why reject it now?
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I don't know enough about what's going on in this video, but it seems very similar to Catholic exorcisms or Evangelical Christians' *laying of hands.* Plus, it seemed many on that panel thought the guy was faking, so that might be why they didn't help him.
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