View Single Post
Old 29-07-2010, 01:17 PM #77
Shasown's Avatar
Shasown Shasown is offline
Account Vacant
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: In my house.
Posts: 9,351
Shasown Shasown is offline
Account Vacant
Shasown's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: In my house.
Posts: 9,351
Default

If you look at his videos, there are signs in some that say Free Healing. He offers blessings which he claims are from "God" and that god can cure people or at least make their lives better.

Him using a wheelchair is probably due to the drunk state he claims God's Love puts him in, or as apparent in one video as an attractor to the public, he doesnt claim to be physically unable to walk. (Careful editing?).

If he did make claims of being able to cure people and asked for money he would open himself up for prosecution under Consumer Protection Regulations. Similarly if he started diagnosing illness he would also be open under the Medical Act 1983.

The important thing to remember legally is that saying he did cure someone and saying he can cure someone are two entirely different things, one allows you to verify his claim if you want to. The other allows him to hide behind "the God will provide the cure" defence.

The form of healing he is offering is akin to Spiritual Healing and Reiki etc, which are recognised alternative therapies and are legal.

In my opinion he is not a lot different to buskers on the street an annoyance to some and entertaining to others.
Shasown is offline