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Your tax dollars are paying this woman to work in the White House. (Original Post) riversedge Nov 2019 OP
Actually, I do not know if she recieves a salary as an advisor. riversedge Nov 2019 #1
We can bet there are perks galore. KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2019 #7
She is satan. smirkymonkey Nov 2019 #2
I don't know what's worse. Her crazy, his lecherousness, or Alithea Nov 2019 #3
Paula White, the perfect Trump administration hire struggle4progress Nov 2019 #4
Religious leaders weaponizing faith for politics struggle4progress Nov 2019 #5
Religious leaders weaponizing faith for money (n/t) PJMcK Nov 2019 #10
Religion and politics use each other to gain power and wealth. keithbvadu2 Nov 2019 #13
+1 dalton99a Nov 2019 #14
"Since they shut down my charity and my university, I'm starting Trump Church!" struggle4progress Nov 2019 #6
Thank you, Struggle......... MyOwnPeace Nov 2019 #9
Flim loves him some flam, especially if dumb enough to spooky3 Nov 2019 #8
What? jayschool2013 Nov 2019 #11
Another Crazy for the WH Asylum. democratisphere Nov 2019 #12
Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ. keithbvadu2 Nov 2019 #15

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
7. We can bet there are perks galore.
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 06:17 AM
Nov 2019

The media fame she gains from being linked to the White House is like gold to grifters like her.

And, I would bet her related expense account would be far more than most Americans earn in a year. Republican Jesus would approve.

Betty puts it in proper perspective....




KY............
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. She is satan.
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 05:49 AM
Nov 2019

Trump should be impeached just for having this woman in the White House. This is just sick.

 

Alithea

(99 posts)
3. I don't know what's worse. Her crazy, his lecherousness, or
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 05:54 AM
Nov 2019

the dark bizarro times we’re living in. Surely the third because it includes all others.

I can’t even believe this is real. It’s like we’re living in a Sim’s Earth game being played by a teenager with a weird and sadistic sense of humour.

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
4. Paula White, the perfect Trump administration hire
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 06:05 AM
Nov 2019

Bonnie Kristian

... A shameless religious grifter is a perfect fit for this presidency, an administration built on giving desperate people false hope for personal gain.

To the outside observer, the prosperity gospel may look like a mere extension of more theologically conservative and liturgically demonstrative types of Christianity, a close relative of fundamentalism, evangelicalism, or Pentecostalism. There is overlap with each, to be sure, but the prosperity gospel is a unique creature ...

In the prosperity gospel's telling, God is a divine vending machine: You put in your coin of faith (check or credit also accepted) and out pops your health, wealth, and victory, the latter degraded from a cosmic triumph to positive feelings about your personal life ...

... This movement does not flourish among the upper class. Those who make $10,000 or less per year are twice as likely to adhere to the prosperity gospel as those making $35,000 to $50,000 per year. It is but a slight exaggeration to say the only people getting the promised wealth are those making the promises ...

... Sure, that $75 should probably go to rent, but White's got a whole slew of context-free Bible verses she's presenting as an ironclad contract with God to expand your bank account, if only you'll expand hers first ...

https://theweek.com/articles/875819/why-televangelist-paula-white-perfect-trump-administration-hire

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
5. Religious leaders weaponizing faith for politics
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 06:11 AM
Nov 2019

By ORLANDO SENTINEL EDITORIAL BOARD
ORLANDO SENTINEL |
OCT 31, 2019 | 1:48 PM

Recently, on The Jim Bakker Show (yes, that Jim Bakker), Central Florida pastor and Donald Trump spiritual adviser Paula White warned of consequences from God for those who don’t stand with the president ...

... White, who led a large church in Apopka until last summer, has long been associated with “prosperity gospel,” which in shorthand means if you give money to the church then God will reward the giver with even more money ...

She also has a long association with Trump, praying at his inauguration and his reelection rally last summer in Orlando. This for a president who wears the mantle of a Christian but is on the record saying he’s never sought forgiveness for his sins, a central tenet of Christianity ...

White was on Bakker’s show to extol the president’s virtues, and to flog her new book, which a review in Christian Today called narcissistic, dishonest, materialistic, shallow and “Trumpesque” ...

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/editorials/os-op-paula-white-weaponizing-religion-politics-20191031-opb6zdcauvhszmzhvrht63zwla-story.html

MyOwnPeace

(16,888 posts)
9. Thank you, Struggle.........
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 06:50 AM
Nov 2019

for the background info - certainly makes it all much clearer - and not the least bit surprising!

spooky3

(34,303 posts)
8. Flim loves him some flam, especially if dumb enough to
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 06:44 AM
Nov 2019

Confuse “parameters” with “perimeters” and she passes the plastic surgery test.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
15. Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.
Sat Nov 2, 2019, 09:50 AM
Nov 2019

Judas was an early modern day conservative disciple.

Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.

Pat Robertson, Paula White and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.

Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.

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