Trump 'spiritual adviser' tells followers to skip paying electric bills so they can send church cash

[BeckyDem]

( From the Bullies and Scoundrels crowd. )

Trump ‘spiritual adviser’ tells followers to skip paying electric bills so they can send her church more cash

Published 1 min ago

on February 17, 2020

Paula White, a prosperity gospel minister who serves as President Donald Trump’s “spiritual adviser,” apparently believes her followers should live in the dark to help keep the lights on at her church.

A lengthy report on White by Mother Jones reveals that the Trump-loving preacher recently told followers at her Supernatural Ministry School in Miami that they could secure God’s favor by sending her church as much money as possible — even if that meant skipping their monthly electric bills.

In particular, White said that followers who send their money to Florida Power and Light (FPL) every month instead of giving it to her church are treating the electric company better than they treat God.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trump-spiritual-adviser-tells-followers-to-skip-paying-electric-bills-so-they-can-send-her-church-more-cash/#.XkqaAUAiGnU.twitter

[Mike 03]

1. Let's hope they take her advice.

And that it's too dark inside their homes for them to fill out their mail-in ballots.

[TheBlackAdder]

25. They're just honoring God

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[Thomas Hurt]

2. Grifters of a feather.

[abqtommy]

3. Paula reminds me of the character Jerry Lee Farnsworth in the movie Fletch Lives. The character

of Farnsworth is a televangelist who exhorts his viewers to send any money they have saved to him
in return for Gawd's blessing. I'm reminded of the times I used to watch Orel Roberts on tv when I was a kid. Scary stuff. So reality mimics fiction and vice versa.

disclaimer: My parents ridiculed Orel Roberts and I learned well. We watched him/Roberts for the entertainment value since there wasn't much programming available on tv back then.

[BeckyDem]

4. Interesting perspective, thanks. They are scary to me.

[bullwinkle428]

5. We did the same with Ernest Angley broadcasts back in the 1970s - the

"faith healing" stuff was comedic gold!! I couldn't believe the guy is still alive - there was a DU thread on his continued grifting no more than a year ago...

[The Blue Flower]

8. Back then, it was either him or wrestling

I watched both as a kid for the entertainment and laughs.

[abqtommy]

9. Yeah, we watched wrestling too. In the 50s we lived in Montana and got one tv station...

[Delmette2.0]

10. I remember Oral Roberts on tv.

My siblings and I would call him Oily Roberts because he was slimy and slick with his programs. I don't remember Mom ever disagreeing with our nickname.

[Brainstormy]

16. Sadly

my grandmother sent Oral Roberts ten bucks a week out of her eighty-dollar-a-week salary for decades.

[Delmette2.0]

18. I'm sorry to hear that.

I'm sure there was nothing your family could say or do to stop her.

[dalton99a]

6. Yeah, God is telling her to buy another $4 million condo in Trump Tower

Disgusting trash

[BeckyDem]

7. UGH.

[Initech]

11. "God is all knowing, all powerful, but he just can't handle money!!" - George Carlin

Fuck televangelist hucksters like Paula White. Seriously.

[csziggy]

12. Isn't that a bit self-defeating for a televangelist?

When her followers are sitting in the dark, how can they watch her on their teevees?

[machoneman]

13. No. God will power up their TV's but only for Fox News....................

[BeckyDem]

15. lol +1

[csziggy]

17. Or they will flock to the local Walmarts

And the teevees will miraculously change to whatever channel carries White's show! And Faux Noise, of course.

[BeckyDem]

14. My guess is, for thieves, its the short term goals that matter most.

Money, money and more money asap.

[gibraltar72]

19. As a recovering Evangelical

this does not either surprise or shock me.

[BeckyDem]

20. How were you able to recover from that mindset?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

22. For me it's like having

A fever breaking. I was in the assemblies of god cult. It messed me up for about a year and a half.

But I got myself and my ex out.

It's like for me, when I had a psychosis episode from incredible stress I was going through at the time. When the meds start working you kind of "wake up "and the fever dream of the mind stops.

There were distinct paraells in this for me.

[BeckyDem]

23. That is powerful, good for you.

[gibraltar72]

24. Also Ass of God

I started thinking for myself I guess. my family was steeped in the bullshit. Once I became old enough to make my own decisions I got tired of hating people.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. Some of those sheep

Will be homeless because a lot of apartments require you to keep your electricity on be and not let the shut-off go indefinitely. Also skipping electric bills can pile up very fast to the point it's debt will come around to bite your ass financially. These magats are so gullible.

[TEB]

26. Thank you for posting

I just sent this to 3 hardcore trump evangelicals I know by text am awaiting a response.

[struggle4progress]

27. Them belly full but we hungry

[LonePirate]

28. Wouldn't God want her to scale back and live within her means?

She could live in a tiny house, travel by bus and still deliver the word of God just as effectively, couldn’t she?

[BeckyDem]

29. Well, that would mean she would have to actually follow those teachings.

But she is a huckster, same as Trump.