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Jenny Bartle - Does faith healing work?
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Jenny Bartle

Last on 23 - 29 Jan

Does faith healing work?


Some faith healers believe God can and does perform miracles, curing people of all kinds of physical disease, even cancer. Sceptics are infuriated by such claims, insisting they are dangerously irresponsible and unsubstantiated by hard evidence. 

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"I work in cancer research and know it's through the hard work of scientists and doctors that diseases and people are cured. Not some mystical being." — han's comment on Pastor Moby Mathew's film
"Atheists are not in touch with reality! Their thinking is irrational. 0+0=0, 0x0=0. Everything can not come from nothing. Without the creative principal there can be no existence (x the unknown = God)." — Eric's comment on Chris French's film
"I would like to see one of these so called "healers" come on this show and provide some evidence that can be properly verified. The reason that they never do is that there in none." — Tom Marinan's comment on Tony Butterworth's film
"This video is great - It highlights that Spiritual Healing is not the same as Faith Healing. Spiritual Healing can provide that cuddle, that moment of calm, its not necessarily based on any particular belief structure." — Daniel Lewis's comment on Ann Fergusson's film
"What's wrong with calling it what it, is a damnable LIE?" — jim666's comment on Jenny Bartle's film
"I remember nothing of the event ~ in fact I have no memory of life BEFORE I was cured, but from that day on, having apparently been suffering 5 or 6 major fits a week and scarcely ever going to school, no more fits ever." — Joy Peach's comment on Manjula Sood's film

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In the UK, cancer causes one in four of all deaths and one person dies every four minutes from the disease. Religion plays an important role when dealing with life-threatening situations, but can a belief in God and praying mean more than family support and medical treatment?

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