Lee
Jae-Rock: Germans Must Repent
[ 15 September 2004 9:22:20 AM ]
Created by Richard Bartholomew, USA
I like the Charismatic Christian news service ASSIST Ministries. It often
contains very interesting information unavailable elsewhere, and usually its
news journalists try to bring in various views and perspectives, rather than
just push a particular line. Also, in a world where most of the religious
wingnuts have been snapped up by Pete at the Dark Window and SZ at World
O’Crap, its opinion pieces have provided one or two just for me, such as
Tom Snyder and Tom Marsland. However, for some reason the writers have
completely fallen for extremely dodgy South Korean faith healer Lee Jae-Rock,
who for months has been reported in nothing other than gushing terms. Back in
November it described at length a miracle rally in St Petersburg:
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Soon,
people were moving out of the audience to stand on the stage and give
witness to their healing. One of them was a 44-year-old who had not
walked since his childhood. As he came on stage, it was obvious that his
leg was bent like the letter Z. Soon he was walking across the stage and
holding up his crutches. Scores of others follow him including a woman
who threw away her crutches and walked and there were several people who
were blind and deaf who were healed. (Pictured: 44-year-old man walks
for first time since childhood).
In fact, the accompanying picture was completely underwhelming (James
Randi agreed with me). As we can see, the man is still clearly
disabled in both his left leg and arm:
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ASSIST also added that:
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There were
two medical teams on hand – one led by Dr. Vera [Samarina], a
professor at a St. Petersburg university and also a radio personality
and writer – and Dr. Nikolai [no apparent surname], who is a
psychiatric professor at the Naval Academy.
“Dr. Nikolai is going to write a paper about the miracles that have
taken place during the crusade,” said Johnny Kim. “And Dr. Vera is
planning to have a special seminar in which she will bring some of those
who were healed before the medical community so that they can personally
see what God has done! She is also planning to form a Christian doctors
association in St. Petersburg.” |
In May I contacted ASSIST to ask about the
academic paper proving Jae-Rock’s supernatural powers. They forwarded my
question to Johnny Kim, Lae-Rock’s assistant. After a while, having received
no response there, I wrote back to ASSIST suggesting the need for a bit of
scepticism, and perhaps some input from someone like Peter May (a British
Christian who opposes irresponsible claims of miracles). That received no reply
(perhaps I shouldn’t have also mentioned Randi), and neither did my query
about what they thought about some odd beliefs attributed to Jae-Rock. Some of
these are (as reported on a hostile
website):
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The
prophets, disciples, apostles, God and Jesus all appeared in photos he
took with his camera after he imposed his hands on it in prayer.(July
17th 1998 at a Friday all night prayer meeting)
Sin resides in the blood of the human. The blood of Jesus shed on the
cross had no original sin or committed sin. Jae Rock explained that he
himself shed all of his blood in 1992, so the sinful blood from his
parents was done away with and he was refilled with new blood that does
not have any original or committed sin.(July 5th 1998 Sunday evening
service)
When Jae-Rock calls any of the prophets, disciples or Patriarchs they
appear before him just like an executive will appear when the president
calls. Jae-Rock says they come and greet him.(July 5th, 1998 Sunday
evening service & July 17th,1998 Friday all night prayer
meeting)
Jae-Rock has accomplished all the words in the 66 books of the Bible
except walking on water.(June 21st, 1998 Sunday service) |
There is also some strange stuff about UFOs.
Back in 1999 the BBC
reported that a critical South Korean TV documentary on Jae-Rock was forced to
postpone after his followers invaded the television station.
Now, ASSIST reports that Jae-Rock is planning a new “Miracle Healing
Festival” in Düsseldorf, and this has inspired his assistant to make what
must be the ministry's most crass statement yet:
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We have come
to believe that God the Trinity wants the Manmin ministry to have a
conference in Germany so that firstly, God wants to show his great love
by giving a chance to German people who did something really bad towards
His chosen people, the Jews, in the Second World War to repent before
the return of Jesus Christ. |
Yes, Germans are still all Nazis. They have
done absolutely nothing to mend their ways since 1945, and it’s high time Jae-Rock
got them to repent. Plus, the Germans didn’t just kill anyone, they killed
people chosen by God, which is worse. (More of Jae-Rock's
"evidence" for miraculous healings can be seen here)
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