An evangelist who kicks followers in the face, claiming his violence will cure them of cancer, is to tour Britain this month – but his proposed visit has provoked outrage and demands that he be banned from entering the country.
Tattooed preacher Todd Bentley, who as a 15-year-old was convicted of a sex attack on a boy aged seven, claims God uses him as an instrument to heal the sick, and is urging the frail to attend his shows.
The former drug user, who is Canadian but based in the United States, even laughs about his ‘healing’ techniques. In one show he treated a man claiming to be suffering from colon cancer by planting his knee hard into the victim’s stomach. The man fell to the floor in agony.
On another occasion, a man was pushed over so forcefully that he lost a tooth.
Burly Mr Bentley, 36, said in one YouTube clip: ‘And I’m thinking why is the power of God not moving? And He said, “Because you haven’t kicked that woman in the face.”
This heretic isn’t a Christian. He’s a pedophile, a drug addict, and a deceiver. He is the enfleshment of everything that’s wrong with pentebabbleism. If he comes back to the States he should be refused entry and sent to Canada where he belongs. Let the people there suffer him.
Zwinglius Redivivus 
Just watching Lisa Ling’s show about faith healing. Never heard of this guy. Was just curious about him and his work. Will have to do further investigating.
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“as a 15-year-old was convicted of a sex attack…” “The former drug user…”
“This heretic isn’t a Christian. He’s a pedophile, a drug addict,…”
Spot the error…
I think he’s a charlatan too, and hope he doesn’t get a UK via, but still…
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i dont think we can take seriously the word ‘former’- especially given his ‘visions’ and outrageous claims. nor should we withhold the title pedophile. as a 15 year old he molested a 7 year old. once a pedophile, always a pedophile.
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Do you think his visions are chemically induced? I got the sense they were a little more calculated. As if he’d say anything he felt would feed his notoriety and inflate his ego. I don’t buy the visions at all, I think he’s being as creative with the truth as when he was claiming to have raised people from the dead in Lakeside. Of the people I’ve worked with or helped with severe drug problems, the only ones who ‘see visions’ do so because of other mental health problems unrelated to the drugs. I for one am reluctant to give him a pass on being deliberately, calculatingly evil, by blaming his charlatanism on a drug problem.
There are high levels of recidivism among pedophiles, but there’s a reason that the law plays out differently for minor offenders (Bentley was 14, at the time, 15 was his age at conviction). Seems a petulant claim to make now, given the many crimes and misdemeanours that he still glorifies in his ‘ministry’!
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i have the sense that we at least agree that this guy is a deceiver.
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🙂
“By their fruit shall ye know them…”
A minister who preaching is so self-focussed is a dead cert for a fake. I don’t see how anyone who’s sat by the hospital bed of someone who died too young, plumbing the depths of their faith for prayers or words of support for his family, could be flippant or blase about contemporary resurrection. There is an inevitable humility, I think, among genuine servants.
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