White House Selling Indulgences for Easter? Greed has no limits.
During our childhood, anytime the evangelist Billy Graham would come on television, my family would congregate in our living room to hear him speak. We weren’t particularly religious, but we were good people, who believed in principals like Karma, and “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Something about the way Graham spoke was comforting. His firm, but compassionate sermons reinforced our faith in the basic goodness of humanity, and left us wanting to be kinder people.
Graham was considered a wise counsellor and dear friend to many of the dozen presidents he blessed, from Truman to Obama. He was often referred to as “the pastor to presidents” He was considered to be a man of high integrity, at a time when charlatan preachers were under intense scrutiny, for being fake prophets and fleecing their followers.
Sometime before Graham’s death in 2018, his son Franklin took over the ministry and although the father had tried to keep a bipartisan attitude towards politics, his offspring was cut from a different cloth. Franklin is a staunch supporter of Trump. and was recently quoted by Time Magazine endorsing the current president’s Executive Order freezing foreign aid.
The USAID department has been gutted and rendered impotent, as millions of tons of emergency rations rot in ports. People are literally dying from starvation and lack of medicine in third world countries, that rely on the assistance to survive. Research grants to discover cures for cancer and develop methods of growing crops in an arid climate have been discontinued. American farmers who held contracts to supply about 80% of the foods that USAID shipped overseas are left with unpaid invoices and warehouses full of spoiling food. I’m sure Billy would disapprove.
We’ve all been hearing the whirlwind news reports lately and shaking our collective heads in disbelief. What have we allowed to happen? How did the most prosperous nation in the world permit an authoritarian psychopathic like Trump to hold the office of President? How did hate, bitterness, cruelty and greed decay the moral fibres of decency and compassion to such an extreme extent?
Today, we find ourselves with an Oval Office that relies on a shameful fraud for its christian legitimacy. White House faith advisor Paula White-Cain believes in “prosperity gospel.” Her religion, or lack there of, follows a theory that the rich have been rewarded by God for their moral decisions and that the poor suffer their misery, as punishment for their immoral behaviour. Apparently White-Cain must still have some repenting to do, because she is constantly requesting her followers to send her donations.
Her latest request is that her “flock” send her $1,000 before Easter, and they will receive “seven supernatural blessings.” Among the rewards promised are a guardian angel, that will take care of enemies, provide prosperity and ensure a long healthy life. As if that isn’t enough, she also promises those who gift $1,000 or more, a 10 inch crystal cross. Keep in mind, before you write a cheque, White-Cain has also sold tickets to an event where she promised to cure covid, and maintains that demonic forces stole the 2020 election from a “divinely chosen” Trump.
White-Cain and her dear leader Trump are two slippery peas from the same decrepit pod. If the current president believes in anything, it is prosperity. Trump is no stranger to the con game. His current gig as world’s most powerful leader has opened the door to endless new possibilities, and he has been quick to capitalize on every opportunity. His grifting nature is so well known, that world leaders know they must come bearing gifts to appease his greed and false flatteries to assuage his raging narcissism.
The Commander in Cheat and all his sycophantic charlatan cronies will have to face judgement and pay for their sin of worshipping at the altar of evil and gluttony. But it won’t be God who seeks retribution, it will be the powerfully assembled citizens of America.
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White House Selling Indulgences for Easter? Greed has no limits.
During our childhood, anytime the evangelist Billy Graham would come on television, my family would congregate in our living room to hear him speak. We weren’t particularly religious, but we were good people, who believed in principals like Karma, and “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Something about the way Graham spoke was comforting. His firm, but compassionate sermons reinforced our faith in the basic goodness of humanity, and left us wanting to be kinder people.
Graham was considered a wise counsellor and dear friend to many of the dozen presidents he blessed, from Truman to Obama. He was often referred to as “the pastor to presidents” He was considered to be a man of high integrity, at a time when charlatan preachers were under intense scrutiny, for being fake prophets and fleecing their followers.
Sometime before Graham’s death in 2018, his son Franklin took over the ministry and although the father had tried to keep a bipartisan attitude towards politics, his offspring was cut from a different cloth. Franklin is a staunch supporter of Trump. and was recently quoted by Time Magazine endorsing the current president’s Executive Order freezing foreign aid.
The USAID department has been gutted and rendered impotent, as millions of tons of emergency rations rot in ports. People are literally dying from starvation and lack of medicine in third world countries, that rely on the assistance to survive. Research grants to discover cures for cancer and develop methods of growing crops in an arid climate have been discontinued. American farmers who held contracts to supply about 80% of the foods that USAID shipped overseas are left with unpaid invoices and warehouses full of spoiling food. I’m sure Billy would disapprove.
We’ve all been hearing the whirlwind news reports lately and shaking our collective heads in disbelief. What have we allowed to happen? How did the most prosperous nation in the world permit an authoritarian psychopathic like Trump to hold the office of President? How did hate, bitterness, cruelty and greed decay the moral fibres of decency and compassion to such an extreme extent?
Today, we find ourselves with an Oval Office that relies on a shameful fraud for its christian legitimacy. White House faith advisor Paula White-Cain believes in “prosperity gospel.” Her religion, or lack there of, follows a theory that the rich have been rewarded by God for their moral decisions and that the poor suffer their misery, as punishment for their immoral behaviour. Apparently White-Cain must still have some repenting to do, because she is constantly requesting her followers to send her donations.
Her latest request is that her “flock” send her $1,000 before Easter, and they will receive “seven supernatural blessings.” Among the rewards promised are a guardian angel, that will take care of enemies, provide prosperity and ensure a long healthy life. As if that isn’t enough, she also promises those who gift $1,000 or more, a 10 inch crystal cross. Keep in mind, before you write a cheque, White-Cain has also sold tickets to an event where she promised to cure covid, and maintains that demonic forces stole the 2020 election from a “divinely chosen” Trump.
White-Cain and her dear leader Trump are two slippery peas from the same decrepit pod. If the current president believes in anything, it is prosperity. Trump is no stranger to the con game. His current gig as world’s most powerful leader has opened the door to endless new possibilities, and he has been quick to capitalize on every opportunity. His grifting nature is so well known, that world leaders know they must come bearing gifts to appease his greed and false flatteries to assuage his raging narcissism.
The Commander in Cheat and all his sycophantic charlatan cronies will have to face judgement and pay for their sin of worshipping at the altar of evil and gluttony. But it won’t be God who seeks retribution, it will be the powerfully assembled citizens of America.
Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.