Why are the faith 'healers' in stadiums and television instead of going from hospital to hospital curing//healing people?

1. Because those venues are far more profitable.

2. Because hospitals can check the results.

They are driven by money.

And, they are good salespeople for their message. Their own wealth is seen by some as proof that their message is correct.

Hell can not be too hot or too eternal for them all.

Even more pathetic are those who fall for it.

Worse are those who deceive.

they can get something for nothing - and that is all about "stuff" and "Money". I guess a lot of people are simply lost.

The advertising industry exists to tell us that wealth is a substitute for everything.

Maybe not riches. But at least a minimal prosperity.

So it might not be entirely good when very smug, superior, spiritual people denigrate prosperity TOO much. Since that denigrates and works against the poor.

It's all too easy for moderately well-off Christians to disdain or put down prosperity. Because 1) the already well-off already have it. And 2) often they don't know what it is like to be without basic necessities, like good food and medical care.

Granted, the filthy rich ministers of prosperity, those who went too fat with prosperity, are bad people. But what about the metaphorical, over-spiritual Christians, who attack the efforts of poor people to lift themselves up?

The argument should be that we all need a living wage, not a minimum wage.

In my view, the issue with prosperity is that all too often it comes at the expense of the workers.

But the issue with the prosperity Gospel ideology, in my view, is that prosperity is presented as a sign of divine favor, and thus a good thing in itself.

If prosperity is sign of divine favor, then it is not just good in itself.

That's because the bible says it is.

Malachi 3:10: "'Bring to the storehouse a full tenth of what you earn so there will be food in my house. Test me in this,' says the Lord All-Powerful. 'I will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out all the blessings you need.'"

Matthew 25:14–30: (the Parable of the talents)

John 10:10: "'I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.'"

Philippians 4:19: "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

3 John 1:2: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."

And you can't prove they're wrong.

"He who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater things than these... Whatever you ask in my name, will do it...." (John 14.12-13 RSV.)

"'I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God who answers by fire, he is God.' ... Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones...." (1 Kings 19.24, 38).

Just metaphors for spiritual things? Note the vivid physicality of thousands of Biblical descriptions. And the scientific experiment in Dan. 1.4-15. KJE. As well as many warnings about false things even in spiritual things; "false spirits," etc..

Feel free to elaborate on it.

Is that a Christian way to treat someone, guillaumeb?

In fact, it 2) stressed science; learning from observing physical material things. And 3) it told us to evaluate Christians by their physical material fruits.

These 4) do not have to be read as mere metaphors for spiritual things. And in fact. the Biblical stress on "science" (Dan. 1.4-15/KJE) militates against it. As do 5) warnings about bad and "false" things in spirit, spirituality ("false spirits," etc.).

Many proud, vain, elitist Christians assert the Bible should be read as spiritual metaphor, mostly. But? Actually the Bible warned constantly about many bad and false things in spirits - and in effect, in spirituality.

So finally the "spiritual" reading of the Bible and its apparent physical miracles and so forth, is hardly better than the prosperity reading, that took them as real, literal, physical events

You can't prove otherwise.

But whatever. Let's pretend these assholes are unique.

But not others. Because reasons.

My opinion.