White House Faith Office

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ironic that her job is to get people to don’t stop believing

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Her faith in Christ enabled her to get away with all that bs. I don’t see why this isn’t taken into account.

  I’m gonna convert to christianity and become a big-time crook. I can’t lose.

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• badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In crime we trust.

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• Spitzspot@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I give you the new public face of Christianity.

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• zloubida@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are many possible points of disagreement within Christianity because, like it or not, the Bible is unclear and even contradicts itself on many subjects (and this is a Christian saying this). But prosperity theology is so clearly the opposite of everything in the Bible that any self-respecting evangelical should ostracize it. That they don’t is the proof that the gospel is not what many evangelicals are interested in.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To reinforce this, Jesus didn’t just say it was hard for a rich person to get into heaven, he said “And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich [person] to enter into the kingdom of God.” --Matthew 19:23-26

    Personally, I think this is specifically referring to the level of greed that it requires to hoard enough wealth to become (and stay) a billionaire while the world suffers. It’s important to understand that this is our Bible, the foundation of everything Christianity is supposedto be about. These freaks have twisted it so much, it’s unrecognizable…

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    • rami@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      fun fact, the “eye of the needle” isn’t referring to a needle. they’re small gaps in the big stone walls just big enough for a person to squeeze through but intentionally designed so that a camel cannot get in. he’s not even saying it’s metaphorically impossible he’s saying it’s literally impossible, and by design.

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It goes on though:

      When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

      But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

      So what I’m getting is “everyone goes to heaven, but don’t say that too loud or people will be dicks to each other”.

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    • clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Supply-side Jesus would like a word with you…

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty sure OP already gets it.

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  • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know most would go back in time and kill Hitler but I’d slap the ever living shit out of John Calvin.

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    • zloubida@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Calvin was totally opposed to this kind of theology. I presume you’re referencing to Weber; but if you read The Protestant Ethic closely, he didn’t speak about mainstream Calvinism of his time, but German puritanism, which was opposed by mainstream Calvinism.

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  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What she cites the bible for

    Though she clarified that donations wouldn’t actually go to help those infected, White used medical imagery to add urgency to her fundraising plea during a pandemic. “Every single day we are a hospital to the sick, not necessarily the physically sick,” she said. “But we are a hospital for those who are soul sick, those who are spiritually sick.” White went on to suggest that contributors offer a $91 donation, citing Psalm 91, or “maybe $9 or whatever God tells you to do.”

    What I cite the bible for

    Matthew 21:12-13 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’

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    • midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m a Satanist, but I fuck with based Jesus.

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      don’t forget he made a whip and used it during this event

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You might enjoy reading some of the works of Bart Ehrman. I’m an atheist who has been reading a lot about Jesus and the early church (first three centuries). I would recommend, How Jesus Became God.

    Anyway, good for you for recognizing prosperity bs for what it is.

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    • zloubida@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like Ehrman. I think Jesus had, before the Resurrection, no clear idea of who/what he was and that what Ehrman shows is how the early church not invented but discovered the divinity of Jesus.

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    • ChromaticSnail@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ehrman is great, as are his books and his podcast (which is called "Misquoting Jesus"). He's one of the most objective mainstream New Testament scholars (in the field of textual criticism), and he doesn't try to advance any agenda. He states clearly whether his points are the consensus of non-evangelical scholars, or whether he's in the minority (which is rarely); whether other scholars disagree with him (and why); what the evangelical scholars say, etc. He doesn't encourage either atheism or religion; he's simply a textual criticism scholar.

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s literally a sin in many sects, not to say those sects aren’t entirely hypocritical on the matter, but trading priestly duties for money is explicitly a sin in a lot of Abrahamic religions.

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• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ”Just a small town girl….”

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• gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fucking prosperity gospel is evil

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• cabron_offsets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She is, not ironically, perfect for the job.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The religion they are alluding to is not Christianity … it’s the holy all powerful and all consuming religion of MONEY

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  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Money has been the point of religion for a very long time.

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, it was originally about making sure your population had good morals, then about controlling your population more generally, then about making money, then about banning fun for some reason, then about making money again

      It’s been quite the wild ride

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She sounds overqualified for the position.

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s cause you gotta take it on faith that she’s qualified to be within 1000 feet of the Whitehouse.

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