She sells magical crucifixes and has warned of consequences from God for those who don’t stand with the president.

The president’s spiritual advisor, Florida-based televangelist scammer Paula White-Cain, said at a book-signing event this week that saying no to Donald Trump is the same thing as saying no to the Christian god.

While speaking during the event, White-Cain recounted how the president asked her to join his Evangelical advisory board before his 2016 inauguration, saying, “He’s got a strong persona, don’t get me wrong. Don’t start a fight with him.”

“Why would the evangelicals come out and vote for him?” she asked before saying that “God told me to” join his advisory board.

“Because one thing I said, ‘I’ll never do politics,'” she said. “But when it came down to it, it wasn’t about doing politics. It was about an assignment. To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God. And I won’t do that.

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      She is the Yoko-ono of Journey. As in her husband Jonathan Cain, the lead songwriter for Journey (Don’t Stop Believin’ etc) basically blew up the band by going full maga. They broke up just before I was due to see them in 2024 😭

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    The divine right of ……… the president of the USA!!! Please. The entire world is waiting for one of 1) him to die 2) the midterms 3) the Supreme Court to strike down his stupid tarrifs 4) another US-style coup.

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    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Krasnov has this lunatic while the drunk in charge of the military has the nutter Doug Wilson.

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    At the risk of attacking her appearance… Does she usually wear glasses or something? It feels like her face is incomplete and I’m not sure if that’s just me or that she usually wears the malifecent horns or something.

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    The fact that people think Trump has a soul is alarming. His existence alone should disprove god.

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      The Christian god, perhaps. There’s also the deistic god, the first cause god, the pantheistic god, … so many gods. Our society kind of sucks at understanding god. There are so many definitions of god that don’t require concessions in science, yet the one that is attacked so often is only the anthropic god. Which is too bad, because it just leaves people feeling like they’re missing something important about community connection. When all we can agree on is that god is bullshit, we don’t have a common value set that helps us organize into larger structures. All we get is fucking Pilates workout groups, coffee shops selling us overpriced fruit bowls, and weird desperate attempts for connection with the gas station clerks.

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        There are so many definitions of god that don’t require concessions in science,

        Name one.

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          I can name like ten.

          But you asked for one, so here you go.


          The “First Cause” / “Unmoved Mover” (Classical Theism). Associated with Aristotle and later Thomas Aquinas.

          God here is not a being in the universe, nor an interventionist agent tinkering with physics. Simply the necessary grounding of existence or causality itself.

          Science describes how events unfold within the universe. This concept addresses why there is a universe at all (or why causal chains exist).

          There is no contradiction because they operate at different explanatory levels.

          My point stands. The common understanding of god is narrowly scoped to the piss poor anthropic god provided by Christianity and the like. There’s a broader world out there.

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            This concept addresses why there is a universe at all

            Shrugging your shoulders and saying “must be god” is not addressing anything.

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            There is no necessary grounding for causality. Insisting there must be one is special pleading. And the prime mover god fails in any eternal universe model because infinite regress isn’t a contradiction or impossibility. You’d also have to explain what created god; failing that, you’d have to special plead that it doesn’t need a creator.

            All said, the prime mover argument is one of the five dumbest arguments for a god.

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    Yes.

    So people grasp this maybe more tangibly:

    Between 25% to 35% of the US population is Y’all Qaeda.

    They’re completely delusional, psychotic religious extremists, who literally believe that they speak and act with the authority of God, and thus cannot be wrong.