Scam Pastor to Pray With Trump At Inauguration

[octoberlib]

Paula White has spent her life bilking gullible people out of their money in the name of religion. And thanks to Trump, she’ll be taking her road show to the inauguration.
Betsy Woodruff
BETSY WOODRUFF

12.28.16 6:45 PM ET


In 2007, TV preacher Paula White got investigated by the U.S. Senate for her shady fundraising practices.
Ten years later, she will pray at Trump’s inauguration.Yes, really.

White is a televangelist with a huge audience and a knack for stirring controversy. She’s been a Trump booster for years, and she helped organize a summit for him in the early days of his presidential campaign with other televangelists. Her presence at the inauguration is a very strong indicator that Trump’s White House will be a safe space for the Christian’s right most controversial characters.

Think of Paula White’s ministry as the church version of Trump University. She preaches the prosperity gospel, an approach to Christianity that is, shall we say, unorthodox. Prosperity gospel preachers teach that God wants people to be rich, and that he makes them wealthy as a sign of his blessing and favor; the richer you are, the more God loves you.
Because, you know, Jesus wore wingtips and a Rolex.

These preachers also teach that the way to become wealthy is—you guessed it!—by giving them money. If you make a so-called “seed offering”—and the bigger the better—then preachers like White say the Lord will repay your generosity with bounteous riches.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/28/scam-pastor-to-pray-with-trump-at-inauguration.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Follow the money.

[gratuitous]

2. If you want to know what God thinks of money

Look at the jamokes who have so much of it.

[msongs]

3. is "scam pastor" an oxymoron? nt

[octoberlib]

7. Lol, I think it is.

[Initech]

4. Prosperity Gospel: how is this still a thing?

[Mosby]

15. Non denominational evangelical churches are growing while traditional

protestant denominations are shrinking.

Prosperity theology and end times theology is what a lot of Christians what, even internationally, the Catholic church for example is losing members to ND evangelical churches here and in Central/South America.

[mnhtnbb]

5. From one con artist to another

Here's what Jesus had to say about rich men:

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” 25When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”…

Matthew 19:23-24


AND

Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed. (NASB) 1 Timothy 6:17-19

[Docreed2003]

8. That must be some Socialist translation...

Cause Joel Osteen teaches me that God wants me to be rich and I just need to have more faith in him and give more to the church and my dreams will come true!! That's my gospel.

[mnhtnbb]

11. haha. So many hypocrites among the right wingers.

[liberal N proud]

6. Remember all the outrage over Obama's pastor in 08?

Obviously the republicans don't

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Perfect for the crotchgrabbing shitgibbon...

goggle around for her affairs during her first three marriages.

[milestogo]

10. Scam Pastor, Scam Religion, Scam President

Seems fitting.

[fairwitness42]

12. The crazy is strong

There are many amazing things in this world. One of the most astonishing is that many people still appear to believe in talking snakes and asses, global floods, virgins magically impregnated, invisible undetectable gods up in the sky, men living inside fish, eternal paradise/heaven and dead guys waking up after 3 days.

But then people who substitute faith for thinking have little or no intellectual horsepower anyway.

[uponit7771]

13. I know her, this is very disappointing... I would think she'd know better ... very disappointing

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. He must rate her at least a 7 or 8.

Otherwise she'd be a back-bencher.

[dhill926]

16. jesus, what a shit show....

glad I'm gonna miss it...and then the next 4 years...

[CurtEastPoint]

17. She's perfect: she's been married 3x already, too.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. Grifters seem to attract more grifters.

He's just throwing bones to the base.

[GoCubsGo]

19. Fitting. n/t