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Breaking News: Trump Adviser Paula White Says Christians Must Send 10% Of Gross Income To Israel Or Risk Disobeying God

Trump's spiritual adviser faces scrutiny over her fundraising appeals for Israel projects.

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Read More: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paula-white-cain-tithe-appeal-israel-1789290

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Opinion | Paula White sparks MAGA backlash after comparing Trump to Jesus

The presidential faith adviser faced fierce criticism after comparing the president to Jesus Christ during an event at the White House.

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The prosperity gospel, explained: Why Joel Osteen believes that prayer can make you rich

The long, strange history of a quintessentially American theology.

Many of the so-called "Christians" who support Trump's reign of greed and scapegoating follow the "prosperity gospel." This article by Tara Isabella Burton explains how aspects of three different movements combined to create what is known today as the "prosperity gospel." The three include:

The 19th century New Thought movement, which claimed that if one set one's mind to something, they could manifest it in real life. This aligned with "the quintessentially American idea that the individual was responsible for his or her own happiness, health, and situation in life."

The Calvinist idea of believing that prosperity was a sign from God that one was predestined to be saved, and hard work was a sign of one's virtue, which led to "the valorization of the 'Protestant work ethic.'" According to Burton, this "specifically Protestant approach to labor [was] integral to the development of capitalism and industrialization."

The rise of decentralized "charismatic Pentecostal churches," in the U.S. According to Burton, these Pentecostals held "the idea that God would manifest Himself to the faithful in concrete, miraculous ways in the 'here and now'" through “'spiritual gifts' (or 'charisms,' from which the term 'charismatic' is drawn)." This in turn, combined with the "decentralized" structure of the congregations, led to the peculiar, almost fan-like devotion of congregants to their charismatic Pentecostal leaders, who often engaged in showy displays of their "spiritual gifts."

[See more under the cut.]

According to Burton:

These three strands collided throughout the twentieth century, as the prosperity gospel came into being. It started — like the “work ethic” Max Weber described — as a way to justify why, during the Gilded Age, some people were rich and others poor. (One early prosperity gospel proponent, Baptist preacher Russell H. Conwell, told his mostly-destitute congregation in 1915: “I say you ought to be rich; you have no right to be poor.”) Instead of blaming structural inequality, Conwell and those like him blamed the perceived failures of the individual. [emphasis added]

Burton claims that it is therefore not surprising that today "two of [the prosperity gospel's] major proponents — Paula White and Wayne T. Jackson — were among the six faith leaders invited to pray with Donald Trump at his inauguration."*

Burton points out that although "a 2006 'Times' poll found that 17 percent of American Christians identify explicitly with the movement," that same poll also found that:

31 percent espouse the idea that "if you give your money to God God will bless you with more money.” [Furthermore, a] full 61 percent agree with the more general idea that “God wants people to be prosperous.” [emphasis added]

Still, Burton wonders if it isn't the underlying cultural influences that created the prosperity gospel that contributed to Trump's election:

It’s difficult to say that the prosperity gospel itself led to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Again, only 17 percent of American Christians identify with it explicitly. It’s far more true, however, to say that the same cultural forces that led to the prosperity gospel’s proliferation in America — individualism, an affinity for ostentatious and charismatic leaders, the Protestant work ethic, and a cultural obsession with the power of “positive thinking” — shape how we, as a nation, approach politics. What is our collective approach to health care, after all, if not rooted in a visceral sense that the unlucky are responsible for their own misfortune? What is our willingness to vote a man like Trump into office but a collective cultural reward for those who brand themselves as successful? [emphasis added]

_____________ *It is a noteworthy that when Trump issued an executive order creating a White House Faith Office, it was Paula White, whom Trump named to lead it.

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“Those religious lunatics in the Middle East”

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I don't want to be "that girl", but like, how can any American who calls themselves a Christian think that Paula White is honest?

Like literally whenever she "speaks in tongues" not only she is just saying jibberish and not speaking in an actual language but she is also super chill while doing it.

Usually when someone who is going though religious psychosis starts speaking in tongues you can clearly see that they are extremely distressed and, most of all, scared while doing it.

This woman claims to be getting possessed by the "Holy Spirit" and yet she acts like she is having a normal conversation with her best friends. She isn't distressed or scared.

Also like, even the fact that she said that if you gave her 3.000 dollars "god" would have given you 7 supernatural blessings?

Like, how can someone be so naiive to believe such an obvious lie?

I'm an agnostic now, but I was a Christian up until the age of 17 and during that time I was always told that god is about unconditional love.

Like, how can someone who calls themselves a Christian believe that the so called god would want money to take care of his so called children?

This woman is an obvious grifter and y'all don't even realize it.

This whole situation is ridiculous.

Wake up for fuck' sake!

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Journey Rocker Tells ‘Bitter Old Man’ Bruce Springsteen To ‘Shut Up’ About Trump

Jonathan Cain also slammed one of Springsteen’s biggest hits as “a dis to our country.”

Ed Mazza at HuffPost:

Longtime Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain said rock icon Bruce Springsteen should keep his politics out of his act. “Guys like Bruce Springsteen should shut up, you know,” Cain, an outspoken conservative, told The Complete Disaster Network podcast. “Honestly, shut up, Bruce.” [...] “Bruce, I mean, what the heck? I used to like him, and now he’s just annoying,” he told the podcast. “He’s an annoying, bitter old man. I mean, stop it.”

[...] But Cain said that’s different from what Springsteen does because he keeps his politics out of his shows. “Now, people say, ‘Well, you’re Christian, and you’re conservative,’” Cain said. “And I’m like, ‘So what?’ I don’t preach it on stage. I don’t spend 10 minutes talking about it.”

[...] During the interview, Cain also slammed Springsteen over one of his biggest hits. “You know, you were ‘Born in the USA,’ weren’t you, dude? So act like it,” he said. “But even that song, if you look at the lyrics, I mean, it’s a kind of a diss to our country.” The song deals with the mistreatment of Vietnam veterans after they returned home from the war. However, it’s often misunderstood to be a jingoistic anthem and politicians, including Trump, have routinely played it at rallies and other events.

[...] He’s repeatedly flipped out at the rock legend on social media, calling him “a pushy, obnoxious JERK” and “dried out ‘prune,’” among other things, and ― like Cain ― saying Springsteen should “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.”

Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain is a out-of-touch sanctimonious fool-- not surprising, considering he’s married to MAGA high priestess Paula White-Cain.

From the 05.15.2026 edition of The Complete Disaster Network's Tom Barnard Podcast: