During a faith healing service, Peter Popoff used a dual strategy of promising miraculous healing while invoking the threat of hellfire, specifically asking a woman with stomach cancer, “Are you ready for God to burn that cancer out?” before laying his hand on her forehead and shouting “Back off Devil!”

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  The Evolution of Transcendence | Evolutionary Psychological Science

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• gastric cancer concept
• God concept