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Trump's spiritual advisor says that saying no to him is like saying no to God

She sells magical crucifixes and has warned of consequences from God for those who don’t stand with the president.

The president’s spiritual advisor, Florida-based televangelist scammer Paula White-Cain, said at a book-signing event this week that saying no to Donald Trump is the same thing as saying no to the Christian god.

While speaking during the event, White-Cain recounted how the president asked her to join his Evangelical advisory board before his 2016 inauguration, saying, “He’s got a strong persona, don’t get me wrong. Don’t start a fight with him.”

“Why would the evangelicals come out and vote for him?” she asked before saying that “God told me to” join his advisory board.

“Because one thing I said, ‘I’ll never do politics,'” she said. “But when it came down to it, it wasn’t about doing politics. It was about an assignment. To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God. And I won’t do that.

Trump's spiritual advisor says that saying no to him is like saying no to Godhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/trumps-spiritual-advisor-says-that-saying-no-to-him-is-like-saying-no-to-god/Open linkView original on lemmy.world

Her official business, Paula White Ministries, has told its followers that it can “assign an angel” to those who pay the ministry $1,000. The angel will allegedly “give you long life” and “be an enemy to your enemies,”

Yeah but then it becomes a bidding war. What if someone else already paid for a divine hit against you? God loves everyone but loves cash even more.

Of course these scam goblins love Trump.

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atzanteolreply
sh.itjust.works

God wants dollars. God wants cents. God wants pounds, schillings and pence.

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I'm glad I live I Euro land, though both British and Austrian schillings are long gone...

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lemmy.world

Christian Curses! Get 'em right here folks!

Wanna live forever, see your enemies destroyed?

I guess it has been a long time since I went to Sunday school.

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tomiantreply
piefed.social

I need to atone for some genocidal conquests, how much will that set me back, like around $2K ish? You have coupons?

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bedwyrreply
piefed.ca

You have been excommunicated from evangelical crazy town for woke talk.

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“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

"But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” - George Carlin

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bedwyrreply
piefed.ca

It"s a shame he died so young. I always suspected the christians murdered him.

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bedwyrreply
piefed.ca

I thought he was in his 50s or 60s. Nevertheless, I suspect his life was cut short by fuckery.

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fedinsfw.app

Wow, what a rip off, don't listen to this lady. If you want one, I can set you up with the same deal PLUS VPN protection for $995.

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tomiantreply
piefed.social

Throw in a discount code for exorcism and you've got a deal, buddy!

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You're in luck, I don't usually do this, but God herself just walked into my office and said for the next thirty minutes, I can include exorcism at no additional charge.

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Nah that's sumerian priestesses (yes I'm oversimplifying for effect and I'm aware there were many roles that didn't necessarily involve sex)

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She's gotta afford all that plastic surgery somehow.

Funny how all the anti-trans "altering the body that God gave you is a sin" people are so quiet about that...

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Question is that while obviously they know they are gifting they are targeting wealthy individuals.

Are those people the ones fooled or are they also on this grift?

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That's basically indulgences for protestants without even claiming to be about after you die.

Also, sub divine spiritual beings willing to accept payment in exchange for enmity towards one's enemies are typically not angels. Magic practitioners who work with angels aren't doing that shit, and the ones who do that tend to go to demons, unaligned spirits, or gods.

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fedia.io

Ah, another arrogant individual who presumes to know the mind of God.

I loathe televangelists. They are nothing like the Christ they claim to serve.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

-Susan B. Anthony

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lemmy.world

The more money you have, the closer you are to god? That's mammon worship. Shameless shills for people who already have more than their fair share.

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It's like these people literally never read the Bible and what Jesus had to say about that exact thing...

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That is calvinism. The prosperity doctrine, or I'm sorry it's originally evolution something, but not the real type I can't recall right now. Wealth shows god's favour, the lack of it his rejection. They would like to help the poors, but it would be defying god's will if they did.

It's all predetermined, and a self serving philosophy.

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lemmy.world

The language she uses is why I despise the evangelical movement. It deigns us powerful and that leads to abuse of that power and supercilious arrogance that you are forever justified. No wonder the western christian church thinks their defecation smells of roses.

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lemmy.ca

How is it that this administration has made me a fan of the fucking Pope??

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The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. They can both be shit in their own way.

That said, I'm happy that Catholics are hearing the message, even if they're ignoring it.

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FTFY

“Because one thing I said, ‘I’ll never do politics,'” she said. “But when it came down to it, it wasn’t about doing politics. It was about an assignment. grifting feeble-minded suckers."

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lemmy.world

Here's some real Christianity for you:

Christ said it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Slime balls through the centuries have tried to weasel their way past this simple truth with convoluted and ahistoric readings of Christ's words. But at the end of the day, the historical Jesus was a poor person. He hung out with other poor people. His friends were beggars, lepers, prostitutes, and social outcasts of all sorts. He lived like a poor person. He spoke like a poor person. He lived with other poor people. If you wanted to join his club, the first thing you had to do was give away all your wealth. He said rich people don't go to Heaven, and he meant it.

There is no such thing as a moral billionaire. There are no billionaires in paradise. Trump and his cabinet are a carnival of the Damned. I do not claim to know what level of wealth damns a person. But by the time you've hoarded enough wealth for a thousand lifetimes, you're certainly past that point. There are no billionaires in paradise. In the end, every last one of them burns.

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DarkFuturereply
lemmy.world

There are no billionaires in paradise. In the end, every last one of them burns.

Sometimes I really wish I was part of the cult so I could believe this. As it is I can only settle for that primal fear every person has to experience as they know they're at the very end. The Great Equalizer. But yeah, until then they're going to live fantastic lives off of our labor. Not quite as satisfying as an eternity burning.

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Mulligrubsreply
lemmy.world

Other real Christianity~

Christ will return leading a Holy Army that will murder everybody who doesn't bow down to Him and accept Him as Lord, many millions upon millions will be killed... and they won't even have peace in death, as Christ will condemn them to eternal torture with Hellfire, as He will all who won't worship Him who lived before, unfathomable tens billions of souls, all tortured forever and ever.

He's gross. He had some good points, but He's no moral authority on anything

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Good thing this verse and the verse about the poor were written by completely different humans

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Doomsiderreply
lemmy.world

Hell and the devil aren't even part of Christianity per se, it is something the baptist popularized as they are pagan concepts.

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Mulligrubsreply
lemmy.world

Yes, they are, per The Bible. Repeatedly.

Your claim was never even imagined until long after the 1611 KJV, it's apologetic tripe

Hell is not a "pagan" concept. Many religions share it, pagans weren't the first (or Christians)

Where are you hearing this? Share, I want to see the goofiness personally... it's certainly not from The Bible.

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Doomsiderreply
lemmy.world

Hell, as most people imagine it, is from Dante"s Inferno.

https://medium.com/@BrazenChurch/hell-a-biblical-staple-the-bible-never-actually-mentions-c28b18b1aaaa

The modern concept of hell as a place of eternal torment is widely considered a synthesis of pagan afterlife ideas, Greek philosophy, and later Christian theology.

You are simply incorrect. That is why Jews have no concept of hell because it isn't even in the Old Testament. Satan is your advocate in judgement not a tormentor.

It is sad to see people not even understand their religion or where concepts actually come from.

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Mulligrubsreply
lemmy.world

Hell, as most people imagine it, is from Dante"s Inferno.

Not really. Vivid Christian depictions of Hell existed long before Dante's Inferno was ever written, centuries of established history. Dante was Christian and Catholic, you're embarrassing yourself.

You are 100% wrong. Your source, "The Brazen Church" at Medium, is absolute apologist garbage, with no citations or footnotes, totally worthless, with many false claims without any historical basis. Note that your source ignores all of the descriptions of Hell, and instead focuses on only the translation of one word (Hell).

It is clearly described as a place of eternal torment, repeatedly, with vivid descriptions (whatever you'd like to call it).

Re Jews, they are another matter, they have differing beliefs than Christians. Satan was not an "advocate" per the Bible. I never claimed that Hell was Jewish, so try and stay focused.

Lastly, it's not my religion.

Now, please stop spreading misinformation that you've learned from Medium, it's a tragedy.

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You are obviously no theologian so I will have to pass on your interpretations. The fact that you can't even admit that pagan depictions of hell were adopted by Christians is fucking bizarre.

Having attended many different Christian denominations in my life I can tell you the baptist are the only ones to talk about about hellfire and brimstone to any degree.

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/brief-history-hell/

https://medium.com/@BrazenChurch/how-when-the-idea-of-eternal-torment-invaded-church-doctrine-7610e6b70815

https://foundations.vision.org/hell-origins-idea-626

The fact that you deny fiction is the source of most of what people would consider hell is very telling. Not even mentioned in the Old Testament, but somehow saying the prince of peace conjured the eternal fires of tormented souls makes me doubt you even have a basic understanding of his teachings.

Now please stop denying history with your unsourced feeble attempts to prove that the devil and hell were not concepts borrowed from other religions including paganism.

Christianity itself is an amalgamation of many different religions before and during its formation. I am not sure what you gain by denying reality. Maybe it is your thing, cheers!

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lemmy.world

I'd like to know which one of the writers of The Boys has an actual working crystal futuretelling sphere. I have some questions about a lottery.

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FOR real, although they cleverly write their script and make changes based on current political and global situationts while shooting the show.

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Kripke ended up doing a whole video saying" i swear to god we didn't know, we were just trying to come up with the most insane shit possible"

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Well, yeah... Did everyone not see that image he posted?

Oh, shoot, sorry... This is the one Iran posted in response to his post. Just freeze it at the first frame, everyone. Let's be adult about this.

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Kaputreply
lemmy.world

Réal American Jésus would have used a folding chair.

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lemmy.ca

Bring back the concept of «Heresy». Because this is it.

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They will bring it back, you'll see. Everyone disagreeing with Trump will be the heretic. That's the way heresy works.

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The Boys writers: "People aren't grasping the satire, is it still too subtle? Crank it up I guess."

Reality:

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i wish, at least there they turned to the smartest guy to help solve the problem.

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From her perspective it actually makes sense.

God = The thing I make up stories about so that people give me money.
Trump = God

Pretty logical once you understand that these people don't believe in anything but making money.

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lemmy.world

The fact that people think Trump has a soul is alarming. His existence alone should disprove god.

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lemmy.zip

The Christian god, perhaps. There’s also the deistic god, the first cause god, the pantheistic god, … so many gods. Our society kind of sucks at understanding god. There are so many definitions of god that don’t require concessions in science, yet the one that is attacked so often is only the anthropic god. Which is too bad, because it just leaves people feeling like they’re missing something important about community connection. When all we can agree on is that god is bullshit, we don’t have a common value set that helps us organize into larger structures. All we get is fucking Pilates workout groups, coffee shops selling us overpriced fruit bowls, and weird desperate attempts for connection with the gas station clerks.

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Soggyreply
lemmy.world

There are so many definitions of god that don’t require concessions in science,

Name one.

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lemmy.zip

I can name like ten.

But you asked for one, so here you go.


The “First Cause” / “Unmoved Mover” (Classical Theism). Associated with Aristotle and later Thomas Aquinas.

God here is not a being in the universe, nor an interventionist agent tinkering with physics. Simply the necessary grounding of existence or causality itself.

Science describes how events unfold within the universe. This concept addresses why there is a universe at all (or why causal chains exist).

There is no contradiction because they operate at different explanatory levels.

My point stands. The common understanding of god is narrowly scoped to the piss poor anthropic god provided by Christianity and the like. There’s a broader world out there.

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lemmy.ml

There is no necessary grounding for causality. Insisting there must be one is special pleading. And the prime mover god fails in any eternal universe model because infinite regress isn't a contradiction or impossibility. You'd also have to explain what created god; failing that, you'd have to special plead that it doesn't need a creator.

All said, the prime mover argument is one of the five dumbest arguments for a god.

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lemmy.zip

But it isn’t a proof for God, It’s a definition of God. And these definitions of God have existed for a long time, which is why I would argue this isn’t a move of the goal post. These are goal posts that have been ignored. There’s also the idea that God is the totality of the universe, and that doesn’t come with any anthropic claims. In fact, I’d argue God being the totality of the universe is closer to some of the beliefs people have in modern day — loosely in association with Astrology, or the belief in some kind of cosmic energies. They just don’t call it God, But if you can distance yourself from the anthropic claims of God, then you can see they’re quite similar.

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Soggyreply
lemmy.world

They do look quite similar, in that they're beliefs entirely ungrounded in observable evidence or rationality.

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Yeah, nobody is arguing that these claims are grounded in observable evidence. I certainly am not. The only reason that argument has air is because people profess that it doesn’t exist in their scientific view of the world, where you “proportion belief to the evidence.” Nobody is saying that’s wrong. I’m just saying it leaves people with a pretty hollow understanding of what’s actually a much richer subject. People love to strawman the idea of god. Nobody likes to discuss the good things that came from having a common religion, regardless of how you define god. Nobody likes to consider that so many definitions of god don’t even operate on the same level of abstraction as science, and therefore you can hold both beliefs. Nobody takes seriously the argument that spirituality might be rather important for the animal which evolved for hundreds of thousands of years with spiritual beliefs and practices. Rather, we forget our neighbors and wonder why we are lonely.

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Soggyreply
lemmy.world

This concept addresses why there is a universe at all

Shrugging your shoulders and saying "must be god" is not addressing anything.

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Which, coincidentally, is perfectly fitting to describe (make up) a god!

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I don’t believe in god. But I do think it’s a valid and possibly necessary part of human history. Hence, it happened and we are here now. That information (even “god”) supported the evolution of our mind.

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Yes.

So people grasp this maybe more tangibly:

Between 25% to 35% of the US population is Y'all Qaeda.

They're completely delusional, psychotic religious extremists, who literally believe that they speak and act with the authority of God, and thus cannot be wrong.

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lemmy.world

You'd think at some point his base would start thinking he was the antichrist but no

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Her standards for an all-powerful, all-knowing god are pretty low. Or to quote Hulk, "puny god".

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saying no to Donald Trump is the same thing as saying no to the Christian god.

The right thing to do, because each has a documented history of being an utterly despicable despotic cunt?

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I've often heard Americans say that one of their greatest strengths is how bipolar they are (with a more positive spin). Well now we're seeing the insane side in control of everything.

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The manic side, I guess?

And Democrats are the depression (mental, not economic) side.

That makes their red (seeing red) vs blue (feeling blue) make sense, too.

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lemmy.ca

The divine right of …….. the president of the USA?!?!?! Please. The entire world is waiting for one of 1) him to die 2) the midterms 3) the Supreme Court to strike down his stupid tarrifs 4) another US-style coup.

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Aulireply

The entire world should be moving away from the crazy States of America. And let them rot by themselves but they won't.

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sh.itjust.works

“Hamanda acka acka racka deda backa sanda acka ambo osa cacka reeté eké banda acka riki dibi asha daaah”

  • Paula White Cain, Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office
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There's an episode of MASH where Klinger is trying to use voodoo on Colonel Potter to get his Section 8. I can't find the clip, but I'm pretty sure that's where she got this dialogue from...

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lemmy.world

It is wild that this season of The Boys was filmed months before this.

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Yeah, I have been having a hard time watching this season as it parallels too closely with the real world. Like wTF, why is this show that is supposed to be OTT fiction so close to reality?

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lemmy.world

Tell me you're gonna burn in Hell if it exists without telling me you're going to burn in Hell if it exists.

She's nothing more than a Mammonite that has mutilated her face.

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Man, I don't want to be offensive but even if you're conservative leaning (which is totally fine) Trump as a person is freaking nuts. If you can't agree with that you're probably in a cult or have a cult mentality. If someone you worked with had the same personally they'd be fired and you'd think they're nuts.

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lemmy.ml

Okay that quote is being very much misconstrued, assuming the body of the post is the entire article.

First, she was contacted by God to join Trump's advisory council. Then, Trump asked her to join his advisory council. In this particular scenario, saying no to Trump would be denying God's will.

That is very different than a blanket "Trump == God"

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pelespiritreply
sh.itjust.works

Maaaaybe, but she's still cray cray. Start at around 37 minutes even. She's saying that Moses had to do battle to take the land in the bible. All of her ministries seem to be sounding smart about very nit picked parts of the bible that she is very confidently wrong about.

https://youtu.be/9oAk-e_dIkc?t=2188

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If there's more ammo in the crazy cannon, we don't need to fire the fodder

i can't tell if that sounds cool or dumb

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DillDoughreply
lemmy.zip

Where are you seeing this being misconstrued as "Trump=God"?

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lemmy.world

I’m so sad she’s married to the keyboardist for Journey. It’s. Upsetting. And I don’t even like him.

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And this woman makes it super hard to explain how their late 70s albums were awesome AF.

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Super mega apostasy

Or Pseudokhristos

Both fit the scheme of the tmnt theme

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thelemmy.club

Saying NO to Trump is like saying NO to GOD!

-People trying to Kill the Pope!

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Psythikreply
lemmy.world

Why does everyone on the internet seem to believe that the pope has the final say on anything and everything involving God? The whole reason why Christianity even exists to begin with is because a bunch of people decided to reject the pope and the Catholic church. So why would anyone care what he has to say unless they're Catholic?

Evangelists wanting the pope dead is not only unsurprising, it's expected.

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prolereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

The whole reason why Christianity even exists to begin with is because a bunch of people decided to reject the pope and the Catholic church

Catholics are Christian you fucking dolt

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Psythikreply
lemmy.world

You know what I'm saying; don't be so dense and pedantic.

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I'm not being pedantic, the word you're looking for is "Protestantism".

It's a very important distinction.

The reason I did feel the need to point it out is because evangelical Christians really want people to believe that Catholics aren't real Christians.

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If you see yourself as god, why would u need a spiritual advisor? And if you see yourself as god, you should probably be committed.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Krasnov has this lunatic while the drunk in charge of the military has the nutter Doug Wilson.

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At what point do we put them all on a boat and wish them luck as we banish them in search of another continent?

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4amreply
lemmy.zip

My brother in Christ, that’s how they got here

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I wonder if anyone has told this stupid bitch that a majority of this country has always said no to this piece of shit.

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She is the Yoko-ono of Journey. As in her husband Jonathan Cain, the lead songwriter for Journey (Don't Stop Believin' etc) basically blew up the band by going full maga. They broke up just before I was due to see them in 2024 😭

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These people don't actually believe in god. Remember Rodrigo Borgia in Assassin's Creed 2 at the end?

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Nobody in ISIS was claiming to be God. These people are worse.

If one of those guys posted a meme representing themselves as the living embodiment of God they would be the next one getting a burning tire around their neck.

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lemmy.world

Turns out White-Cain is actually Cain, and we are all Abel being betrayed for doing our best. Let's hope that curse from God doesn't wipe out the country and sticks to just these traitorous jerkoffs.

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I mean, While trying not to be a Reddit atheist here, if there is a Christian god there’s no way they aren’t a fascist god. Lmao. Look at the state of the world! It’s the classic “either God is not omnipotent or is malevolent”. With a god that allows this kind of untold suffering, possibly even creates it according to these Christians on earth, why would you even need Satan ? Would Satan also not be a good angel for, you know, dealing with every single bad person that’s ever existed for all of eternity? Idk I went to church way too much growing up

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As a socialist and an atheist, this just saves me time and energy. I only have to say no once.

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This bitch can suck the hairiest, dirtiest part of my nutsack.

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All the more reason to say no to him. As if I needed more reasons.

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She's right from a Biblical standpoint, per "Bible Logic".

Bible Logic: render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, Caesar is ruling because it is God's Will that they rule.

... and this is why we abandoned "Bible Logic" many centuries ago, because it's stupid.

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Guess it's the official position of American Christians that saying no to a felon rapist is the same as saying no to God.

I don't have children, but if I did, I'd be keeping them far away from Christians.

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Misread the headline and thought it said trump's spiteful advisor.

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Still going with the full on antichrist vibes I see. I think Trump will soon demand to become a saint.

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I read a lot of history and you get passages describing clearly insane courtiers, soothsayers, self proclaimed alchemists or whatever tell some king that if they just drink so and so much mercury or murder and eat a certain number of albino babies that they will become like Gods and I think holy shit people were crazy back then thank god I live in a civilized s

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At the risk of attacking her appearance... Does she usually wear glasses or something? It feels like her face is incomplete and I'm not sure if that's just me or that she usually wears the malifecent horns or something.

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God God? As in Doctor Jesus's dad?

So all those little girls screaming "NO" during the decades of child rapes were actually talking to God?

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Funny, I had dinner with God just last week and He said this girl was an idiot.

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