You are entitled to your beliefs, but there are major differences in what Popoff is doing and what priests do, for example.
No one has the right to make fraudulant claims such as 'meeting loved ones' or 'instant healing'. We simply have no idea who or what we will recognize in heaven. But there is a big difference in a belief, and a purposeful fraud. Popoff
knows he is full of crap. He knows he has someone piping information to him, and that is wrong, and lying is not 'christian'. I have known priests who have left the ministry because they felt like they were somehow part and peddlar to a scam. That's the honest thing to do, and it has been proven beyond a doubt that Popoff is not honest. Therefore, Christians can definitely regard him as outside of any Christ-like behaviour.
People are gullible, and that is sad. It is sad when they fall for a purposeful scam. Maybe God takes pity on some and they are truly healed. Maybe that perpetuates the fraud. But if we are not dealing with fruads, only beliefs, we are all gullible, you included. If it turns out there is a God, you have certainly been fooled badly. We can only wait and see, but in the meantime, there is really no high-ground.
Edited by anastasia, : No reason given.