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Mark Frauenfelder 8:32 am Tue Nov 5, 2019

Meet new White House staffer Paula White, Trump's "prosperity gospel" advisor

The fact that Trumped hired his spiritual advisor Paula White to come to work for him tells you everything you need to know about her. This video will add no new information. It's for entertainment purposes only. Skip to :47 if you want to see her speaking in High Valyrian. — Read the rest

Xeni Jardin 3:21 pm Thu Oct 31, 2019

Televangelist and 'prosperity gospel' pastor Paula White joins Trump administration

This is scary, but has nothing to do with Halloween, despite the date.

Cory Doctorow 9:15 am Thu May 30, 2019

How the "prosperity gospel" convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers

The "prosperity gospel" (previously) is a religious doctrine that encourages poor people to send specific amounts of cash (usually in the hundreds of dollars) to charismatic preachers, an act the preachers characterizes as "seed giving" — and the preachers promise that God will reward these gifts by making the givers rich.

Xeni Jardin 11:31 am Fri Oct 2, 2015

Trump's Prosperity Gospel backers say Jesus makes you rich, cures Ebola, resurrects chickens

That weird meeting between presidential candidate Donald Trump and a number of so-called Prosperity Gospel evangelists sounds weirder the more we learn about who was there, and what they actually say they believe.

Mark Frauenfelder 10:49 am Mon Feb 3, 2020

20 worshippers trampled to death during Tanzania church service

At at least 20 worshippers were killed in a stampede at a prosperity gospel church service in Tanzania on Sunday when the pastor told the thousands in attendance to come forward to get anointed with blessed miracle oil that solves all problems, reports The Telegraph. — Read the rest

Rob Beschizza 5:20 am Thu Jun 6, 2019

Televangelist explains why his private jet is "biblical"

You can't get close to God on commercial.

Prosperity gospel preacher and measles aficionado Kenneth Copeland is closing in on his first billion dollars made.

"If I flew commercial, I'd have to stop 65 percent of what I'm doing, that's the main reason," he said.

— Read the rest

Xeni Jardin 4:24 pm Wed Jan 30, 2019

Trump's pastor to flock: Give me your January salary or God will punish you

Donald Trump's "prosperity gospel" spiritual advisor Paula White, a pastor who is reported to reside in an 8,000 square foot house and travel on a $2.6 million private jet, is commanding her congregation to cough up their January salaries to her or else God is seriously going to punish them so hard.

Xeni Jardin 2:31 pm Fri Dec 14, 2018

Megachurch pastor struggles to defend $200,000 Lamborghini purchase

A Lamborghini here, a Lamborghini there, sooner or later it starts to add up.

Cory Doctorow 7:16 am Sun Jan 28, 2018

Baptist News: Evangelicals have killed Christianity in America

Writing in the Baptist News, Miguel De La Torre — a progressive professor at Denver's Iliff School of Theology — denounces evangelicals who "forgive" Trump for his myriad sins and support child-molesters like Roy Moore, saying that they embrace a faith that "fuses and confuses white supremacy with salvation."

Xeni Jardin 12:26 pm Tue May 31, 2016

Televangelist Jan Crouch dead at 78 after massive stroke

The queen of the world's first mega-sized "prosperity gospel" empire has died.

Arthur Goldwag 7:09 am Wed Nov 4, 2009

Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa

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"Medication" by Andrew Brandou, from his Jonestown paintings

Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books. — Read the rest

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