{"id":39618,"date":"2019-11-02T21:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39618"},"modified":"2019-11-02T21:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T21:52:53","slug":"trumps-weird-association-with-evangelicals-takes-an-even-weirder-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39618","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s weird association with evangelicals takes an even weirder turn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It looks as though the nation’s strangest political alliance has taken a strange new twist.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has hired a thrice-married, money-loving televangelist to be his link to the evangelical Christian community that continues to support the president, even in the wake of a mountain of impeachment evidence that is piling up all around him.<\/p>\n

This person’s name is Paula White. She is far from your run-of-the-mill person of the cloth. She has been marred by marital scandal. She lives in a glitzy mansion in Florida. She reportedly believes God wants believers to gather wealth. She delivers her ministry on television.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t sound so, oh, very Trumpian? I believe it does.<\/p>\n

The New York Times noted some fascinating spiritual comparisons.<\/p>\n

The Times reported that Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon turned the Rev. Billy Graham, who the Times said was “so ubiquitous he became known as America’s Pastor.” President Obama turned to Rick Warren, whose best-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life” became the second best-selling hardcover book in American history; the No. 1 best-seller is, um, The Bible<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Read the Times story\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Paula White comes from a vastly different mold than previous presidential pastors. She is, shall we say, more than a tad unconventional in her approach to God’s holy word.<\/p>\n

She preaches something called “the prosperity gospel,” which the Times reports has drawn widespread criticism from mainstream religious leaders. Imagine that \u2026 if you can.<\/p>\n

But there she is, working within the White House as a sort of “spiritual adviser” to a president who, to my way of thinking, has lived one of the most un-Christian lives of any notable public figure I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Didn’t he once tell us that he’s never sought “forgiveness”? He has admitted cheating on two of his three wives; and there’s plenty of evidence that he’s fooled around on Wife No. 3. He has preached a doctrine of toughness to obtain business success. Trump has mocked others’ physical disabilities, their appearance, their intelligence.<\/p>\n

Does any of that resemble what Jesus Christ would endorse?<\/p>\n

Don’t answer that.<\/p>\n

Now he has someone named Paula White advising him. She will work to shore up his religious movement support.<\/p>\n

Weird, man.<\/p>\n\n

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It looks as though the nation’s strangest political alliance has taken a strange new twist. Donald Trump has hired a thrice-married, money-loving televangelist to be his link to the evangelical Christian community that continues to support the president, even in the wake of a mountain of impeachment evidence that is piling up all around him. … Continue reading Trump’s weird association with evangelicals takes an even weirder turn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[540,5805,1424,1487,7606,3940,9019],"class_list":["post-39618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-billy-graham","tag-donald-trump","tag-dwight-eisenhower","tag-evangelical-christianity","tag-richard-nixon","tag-rick-warren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39620,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39618\/revisions\/39620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}