Baptist News Global: Trump's Faith Advisor Selling Seven Easter Blessings for a $1,000 Gift
It is impossible to reconcile the sincere and genuine practice of the Christian faith with support for Trump and his right wing extremist politics that includes the Christian Nationalist agenda of Project 2025. The two things are not philosophically or morally compatible.
The object of worship in Christianity is Jehovah, the God revealed by Jesus, the Christ, as the creator and sustainer of the universe. He is to be worshipped with all of our heart, soul and mind, our entire being. We are also to worship God by loving our neighbors as ourselves, because they are his highest creation. Jesus equated these two commandments as "the greatest."
The object of worship in Trump's far right wing politics is money. Everything is measured by its financial value, and everything he does is to increase the amount of it that he has. Any labor not devoted to generating a profit is, in his mind, futile.
There are thousands of Evangelical pastors and church leaders Trump could have chosen to run the White House faith office, and be his "spiritual advisor." If he believed in and followed the Christian gospel, he would join a local church and that pastor would become his spiritual advisor. But, other than getting the votes of those Christians who have been duped and deceived into following him, Trump despises Christianity and denies any personal need for it. He has chosen, instead of a Christian who expresses belief in Biblical doctrine, a prosperity gospel heretic who sees American Evangelicalism as a chance to make a buck off of the ignorance and superstition of the prosperity gospel she preaches.
Every prayer she utters, every "blessing" she gives has a financial value attached to it. It's not hard to see why Trump is attracted to her and rejects traditional Christian practice. She worships money, too, and has developed a system for making a profit off religion. Blessings have a financial cost to them, in her world. And that's what resonates with Trump.
His Choice of White as Spiritual Advisor Makes Hypocrites and Liars Out of Evangelicals who Support Him
One of the core doctrines of conservative Evangelicals is that women cannot be pastors and cannot be in a position in the church where they have any authority over men. The largest Evangelical denomination in the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention, has recently taken the step of dismissing churches from its membership if they have a woman on their ministerial staff who is serving as, and designated as a pastor. It is such a hard line doctrinal point with them that they do not believe Christian churches who have designated a ministry role in their church for someone they call "children's pastor" or "youth pastor" or "teaching pastor" believe the Bible or are practicing true faith. And they are kicked out of denominational cooperation.
But because Trump has made White, a self-proclaimed "prophetess" his spiritual advisor, many of them have had to hold back their criticism and judgment. They are so sold out, and so far out of the Christian fold at this point that they are willing to be silent, and not be critical. Inwardly, I know some of them personally, and they are seething, but of course, they are too spineless to stand up for their own traditions and beliefs.
Peddling the Gospel For A Buck, er ah a Thousand Bucks is Blasphemous
Let's cut to the chase. White is a heretic. She knows nothing of the Christian gospel. Blessings cannot be sold for a profit, they are free for the asking. Peddling the gospel by convincing people they can pay money for blessings instead of following the Christian path to a conversion experience by being convicted of sin, repentance and trusting God to restore the relationship is blasphemy and at least one of the Apostles in the New Testament, Paul, says so. John says that one who denies he has sin is lying, and the truth is not in him. And, he later uses the term "antichrist" to define the behavior.
So, here we have, for those who want to see it, a demonstration of the fact that Christianity is not compatible with Trumpism.
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