married a member of the rock band Journey
Is that why she didn’t stop believing? (I’m guessing she never started, but…)
Well done
She is, not ironically, perfect for the job.
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!
The religion they are alluding to is not Christianity … it’s the holy all powerful and all consuming religion of MONEY
Money has been the point of religion for a very long time.
Nah, it was originally about making sure your population had good morals, then about controlling your population more generally, then about making money, then about banning fun for some reason, then about making money again
It’s been quite the wild ride
A lot of old testament stuff had to do with hygiene. Look at all the kosher rules regarding food. Deut. 22:9 also forbids growing mixed crops, which likely had to do with the chance of crossbreeds being infertile and the inability for Bronze/Iron Age tribes being able to replace seed stock quickly enough.
Or some priest or political leader took revenge against a pig farmer who slept with his daughter.
And the mixed crops this was more likely to make sure farmers are not self sufficient.
No. The seed thing is explicitly so the farmers could grow the same crop from year to year. If you grow a cucumber in the same plot as squash, the seeds from both will be a hybrid and not give you anything useful. Cucurbits are notoriously easy to hybridize and create useless offspring. The genetic mechanics wouldn’t have been know, but you would still see the results. People needed to live in groups then and now. No farmer would ever be able to be completely self sufficient regardless, especially then.
I was thinking more along the lines of shellfish for a primarily desert people or the Rabbi being the defacto food inspector.
Ironic that her job is to get people to don’t stop believing
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.
What is a Faith Officer?
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it?
Likely whatever she wants to be given the current politics in the US. It’s blatantly unconstitutional but it will probably not be stopped. If we don’t change course, sooner or later it will be like the religious police in Iran.
Its the precursor to Y’all Quaida’s version of the hijab police. They’ll be murdering people in the streets before the year is out.
This ladies name is Paula White since it doesn’t say anywhere in the post.
Paula White-Cain to be more specific and get the biblical irony all the way up.
incurring more material wealth is the tenet of her faith.
more wealth === more blessed
for sure her greedy god and the jealous god are two different things.
Who is this?
Are we sure this isnt referencing Real Housewives of DC Michaele Salahi? Who Broke Up A Whitehouse Dinner?
And also subsequently married Neil Schon from Journey?
either way, some actual fucking information would be chill. guess none of us will know for sure what the fuck this is talking about lol
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.
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
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.
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.
She did that for trumps last administration too I believe, without the dept name maybe. But this definitely isnt the first time I’ve heard her name in relation to Trump
It’s like having a witch doctor rolling crow skulls and determining what to do next
Welcome to 2025.
America isn’t like this since last month
But the madness has really ramped up lately.
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?
Lol what a (shit)show.
It’s legit.
It’s a new thing believe it or not.
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.
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.
Condescending Joel Osteen Noises
Joel is just mad that he didn’t think of this first
Supply Side Jesus would disagree.
It’s what republican Jesus wants
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.’
I’m a Satanist, but I fuck with based Jesus.
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?
Supply-side Jesus would like a word with you…
Pretty sure OP already gets it.
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…
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.
This is a cope made up by wealthy Christians from what I understand. Source?
how is that a cope? doesn’t it make the comment more scathing? and idfk entirely possible someone made that up, just Google it, I got pictures and shit when I checked briefly before posting
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”.
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…
I try to tell Christians to just read the words of Jesus if they don’t have time to read their whole book. Some bibles have them helpfully marked with red ink.
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.
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.
He says he’s the son of god long before he’s killed if I’m not mistaken.
Yes, but:
- that doesn’t mean he had an idea of the Trinity and his place in it;
- it’s probably something the Evangelist added anyway.
I’m convinced that he believed he was the Messiah. I don’t think he considered himself divine. I think that was invented later.
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 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.
Indeed, the USA is turning into the WASP version of 1979 Iran.
Christo-fascist enthno-state
