This ladies name is Paula White since it doesn’t say anywhere in the post.
Indeed, the USA is turning into the WASP version of 1979 Iran.
Religion is a scam. The biggest religion is the biggest scam. Don’t believe in this nonsense.
I remember watching a skit where someone time travels like 50-100 years into the future to see if all the problems get solved, war, climate change, etc. the guy assures everything fine and reveals the solution. The rapture came and took all of the religious people away. Everyone left was easily able to work together to solve all the issues.
Lol that’s great.
Thanks for that.
What? I searched for it and it’s not a joke? There’s an actual Faith office in the USA? That’s something you would expect in Iran, not the USA
We talking Iran, the secular democracy prior to 1953? Or Iran, the US backed military dictatorship that lasted until 1979? Or Iran, the Revolutionary Socialist Government that imploded in the run up to the US instigated Iran-Iraq War?
Oh oh oh. I gotcha. We’re talking about the modern theocratically controlled
Kingdom of Sauduh…Hinduvista Federal government of Indiaum…Revanchist Anti-Communist Christian Cult of the Park/Yoon governmenter…Apartheid State of Israeloh, here it is, Ayatollah’s Iran.Damn, can’t believe America would end up like Evil Foreign Country, instead of a model liberal secular government we traditionally support.
Well that seemed very relevant
I follow a guy (Matt Taylor) who studies a branch of Christianity called the New Apostolic Reformation, a branch that’s like if Evangelical theology, prosperity gospel, and morals merged with traditional charismatics. Lots of prophecies. These are also the Seven Mountains Mandate people–the people who believe they should be in charge of the 7 pillars of culture, like media and education. He posted a a zoomed out version of the above picture, labeling everyone he recognizes from NAR. The NAR has been courting Trump since his first term. Trump is delivering for them.
Where the fuck is Hegseth holding the Jerusalem Cross flag?
trump established a White House Faith Office on Friday, February 7, 2025.
she’s the first one.
no one knows exactly what she plans to do…or even what she could or might do.
Welcome to 2025.
America isn’t like this since last month
But the madness has really ramped up lately.
Faith office in the USA? That’s something you would expect in Iran, not the USA
Iran… Or Saudi Arabia… Imperial drones always choose to attack one but not the other.
Personally I’m not at all surprised to see it here.
The Founding Fathers were VERY CLEAR when it came to Protecting Mass Child Murderers but VERY MURKY when it came to Separation of Church and State!
100s of 1000s of $$
This is cursed and looks like “hundreds or thousands of dollars” at a glance. Just say “100,000s of dollars” or “$200,000+”.
I think “100,000s of dollars” is cursed too. If you want to use that phrasing, just spell out “hundreds of thousands”.
Or a six figure sum.
Wouldn’t that be “hundreds of a thouseand”?
No, the thousands are plural.
I would say $100K+ & provide a link. Idk. It’s nice & short, it’s lowball & true to say, and if people want to look up more accurate numbers they can do so on their own time.
Who is she?
Edit: never mind: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_White
Edit 2: she is a prosperity theologian? Tbf, I am no christian, but i really doubt this is what Jesus wanted.
Supply Side Jesus would disagree.
There’s only one point in the bible where someone actually asks Jesus how to receive eternal life. Jesus says to keep the commandments and also:
"Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.”
Yeah no shit… Jesus would be fashioning a whip to drive these fuckers out of his temple.
If he were real.
St. Peter will deny her worthless greedy ass at the gate.
Condescending Joel Osteen Noises
married a member of the rock band Journey
Is that why she didn’t stop believing? (I’m guessing she never started, but…)
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Well done
God forbid women have hobbies 🙄
How deep in denial of being trailer trash do you have to be to wear gold pearls?
There are many possible points of disagreement within Christianity because, like it or not, the Bible is unclear and even contradicts itself on many subjects (and this is a Christian saying this). But prosperity theology is so clearly the opposite of everything in the Bible that any self-respecting evangelical should ostracize it. That they don’t is the proof that the gospel is not what many evangelicals are interested in.
What she cites the bible for
Though she clarified that donations wouldn’t actually go to help those infected, White used medical imagery to add urgency to her fundraising plea during a pandemic. “Every single day we are a hospital to the sick, not necessarily the physically sick,” she said. “But we are a hospital for those who are soul sick, those who are spiritually sick.” White went on to suggest that contributors offer a $91 donation, citing Psalm 91, or “maybe $9 or whatever God tells you to do.”
What I cite the bible for
Matthew 21:12-13 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’
don’t forget he made a whip and used it during this event
He saw what was going on, went back outside and made a whip, then brought it back in and went after all four cheeks.
Remember, when someone asks “What would Jesus do?”
Going after all 4 cheeks is a valid response.
What would Jesus do?
I’m a Satanist, but I fuck with based Jesus.
To reinforce this, Jesus didn’t just say it was hard for a rich person to get into heaven, he said “And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich [person] to enter into the kingdom of God.” --Matthew 19:23-26
Personally, I think this is specifically referring to the level of greed that it requires to hoard enough wealth to become (and stay) a billionaire while the world suffers. It’s important to understand that this is our Bible, the foundation of everything Christianity is supposed to be about. These freaks have twisted it so much, it’s unrecognizable…
No issues with you comment, but I find it disheartening that leadership in churches around the country do not condemn what is happening
That’s how far we’ve come. I know many here are vehemently opposed to any faith-based belief system, and that’s 100% your right. But churches and religious leadership promoting Trump and hate are shitting on everything God said in the one book he gave us. Modern Christians should read the Bible and find a church that follows it. If possible. Not the other way around…
fun fact, the “eye of the needle” isn’t referring to a needle. they’re small gaps in the big stone walls just big enough for a person to squeeze through but intentionally designed so that a camel cannot get in. he’s not even saying it’s metaphorically impossible he’s saying it’s literally impossible, and by design.
It goes on though:
When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
So what I’m getting is “everyone goes to heaven, but don’t say that too loud or people will be dicks to each other”.
Supply-side Jesus would like a word with you…
Pretty sure OP already gets it.
You might enjoy reading some of the works of Bart Ehrman. I’m an atheist who has been reading a lot about Jesus and the early church (first three centuries). I would recommend, How Jesus Became God.
Anyway, good for you for recognizing prosperity bs for what it is.
Ehrman is great, as are his books and his podcast (which is called “Misquoting Jesus”). He’s one of the most objective mainstream New Testament scholars (in the field of textual criticism), and he doesn’t try to advance any agenda. He states clearly whether his points are the consensus of non-evangelical scholars, or whether he’s in the minority (which is rarely); whether other scholars disagree with him (and why); what the evangelical scholars say, etc. He doesn’t encourage either atheism or religion; he’s simply a textual criticism scholar.
It’s literally a sin in many sects, not to say those sects aren’t entirely hypocritical on the matter, but trading priestly duties for money is explicitly a sin in a lot of Abrahamic religions.
Gestures broadly at the pastors with their AMG Mercedes/M BMWs, mansions, private planes, helicopters, beach/mountain vacation houses, etc…"
I like Ehrman. I think Jesus had, before the Resurrection, no clear idea of who/what he was and that what Ehrman shows is how the early church not invented but discovered the divinity of Jesus.
I know most would go back in time and kill Hitler but I’d slap the ever living shit out of John Calvin.
Calvin was totally opposed to this kind of theology. I presume you’re referencing to Weber; but if you read The Protestant Ethic closely, he didn’t speak about mainstream Calvinism of his time, but German puritanism, which was opposed by mainstream Calvinism.
Strange place.
Grifters gotta grift.
Has there always been a White House faith office?
No, totally unconstitutional.
Does anyone know the correct procedure to challenge it? It’s only illegal if the laws are enforced.
What’s laws, precious?
You know, laws? Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew?
Yep, that’s p much what they’re doing with’m They’re not nearly as delicious tho
You need to have standing, which if the only impact is Congress’s budget then only Congress does.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flast_v._Cohen for establishment clause standing by regular taxpayers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hein_v._Freedom_From_Religion_Foundation for the court throwing that out for the executive. They’d likely throw the whole thing out now.
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And Trump says it is to protect Christians because they’re being heavily persecuted. Those poor poor Christians.
I’ve never met a more prosecuted majority in my life. 😔
Is that prosecuted or persecuted? Hmmm, actually both fit perfectly in your sentence
Oh, right, I forgot English makes that distinction. Thanks for reminding me!
I’m interested! I thought both words derive from Latin prosequi/persequi and had essentially the same meaning as modern English. Which language do you speak?
They do, but in modern English it helps to break them down via the root words, here specifically the pro and per prefixes. Sequi is “follow,” while pro essentially means forward, with prosecute to be follow forward. Persecute takes the same sequi but per is now *through," as in follow through. Both of which have legal origin, but the differentiation is that prosecute is to “follow forward” in a court of law, almost as an ante, while persecute being “follow through” is more of a present verb signifying current action.
Edit: this website is a great resource for breaking down words for meaning and origins.
Welp. Time to meet their expectations.
Tough to be a rich white christian man in the richest country these days…
USA isn’t the richest country…
Always- no.
Since G.W. Bush? Yes.
Obama and Biden kept it going, Biden actually restored it after Trump 45 left it to languish.
