Televangelist Didn't Think This Scammy Money Beg Through

Rich scammer Paula White wants you to not pay your electric bills, and
instead give that money to her.  

Paula White, one of the most prominent scamevantelists televangelists recently had a money beg that I'm sure she didn't quite think through.

According to Alternet.org quoting Mother Jones, White, leader of her Florida-based (of course!) Supernatural Ministry School (Yes! That's the name!) said her followers could secure God's favor by sending her church as much money as possible.

That includes not bothering to pay their electric bills and send money earmarked for the utilities to her instead.  

She especially urged her followers who pay their monthly electric bills to Florida Power and Light (FPL, as it's known in the Sunshine State) to give it to her church instead. Why? Because if they don't, they're treating the utility better than they treat God, reports Alternet.org.

"Instead of writing (that check) to the house of God as I'm instructed to, then what I'm saying spiritually is, 'FPL, I hae now established a spiritual law that put ou first,' White explained to her flock. 'So, FPL, save my family, FPL, deliver my drug addicted son. FPL, kill this cancer that doctors say is in my body.'"

There is a lot of things to unpack here. First of all, I'm unaware of Florida Power and Light ever promising to eradicate drug addiction or cure cancer. I checked their press releases and didn't find any of those claims.

Like most utilities in America, all FPL promises is they'll keep providing electrical service to your house as long as you pay your monthly bill. It's pretty simple, really.

I'm also going to put my often-used Captain Obvious hat on here. A lot of White's followers keep up with her by watching TV or listening to her online.  That becomes a lot more difficult for people whose electricity is cut off because they didn't pay their bills.

White is one of the leading scammers in a very scammy "faith" called the "Prosperity Gospel."

According to Dictionary.com, Prosperity Gospel is "a modern version or according to some, perversion of the gospel according to which the full blessings of God available to those who approach Him in faith and obedience include wealth, health and power."

The more blunt and obvious definition of this is, Prosperity Gospel is a scam in which charismatic shysters tell you to give them boatloads of cash and if you do, God will shower you with money, tacky swag and an ugly McMansion somewhere in suburban Birmingham, Alabama,  Or something like that.

Yes, yes, I know that's a perversion of real Christianity. But people fall for it. There's a sucker born every minute.  Including Donald Trump, who's probably in on the scam, since he's in on a lot of scams. I say this because Trump has declared Paula White one of his spiritual advisors.

As Mother Jones points out, both Trump and White are "twice-divorced, with a history of marital infidelities and bankruptcy, but possessing remarkable TV savvy."

Paula White is a piece of work, anyway, as I'm sure you've gathered. You have to hand it to her, she does hustle to make some good income from the gullible.

As Christian Post reported nearly four years ago, White began selling "Resurrection Seeds" that would give you eternal life for the low, low price of $1,144.

But wait! There's more!

Back in 2019, White demanded that her followers give her their January salary, reports Newsweek.  I imagine that most of her gullible followers aren't rich.  That's why they follow the "Prosperity Gospel."  They're sick of being poor and out of desperation they see this as their ticket.

It does seem White is getting very rich off her scams. She's been the subject of two Congressional investigations into her doings, but so far, there's been no action.

Of course, everything and everybody Trump touches dies, so we'll see what her future brings. While her most ardent followers sit in the dark and wait, having not paid their electric bill.

Scammy "Prosperity Pastors" Explain Why They Need You To Pay For Their Private Jets

The so-called Prosperity Gospel seems to rip off
a lot of gullible people, in my opinion.

So-called "Prosperity Gospel" is one of the cruelest scams, and one that makes a few grifters very, very rich.

Prosperity Gospel is the idea that if you give a preacher, televangelist, or whatever, piles of money, then God will smile down on you and make you rich, too. You're doing God's work by handing over your hard-earned cash, goes the theory.

It's a terrible distortion of the usually harmless practice of tithing, in which churchgoers donate some money regularly, or some part of their income, to support the teachings and activities of their church.

The Bible doesn't exactly give big support to the idea of Prosperity Gospel "For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the aith and pierced themselves with many griefs," (1 Timothy 6:10)

Or, as Relevant, a magazine on religion and culture notes, "Jesus didn't die on the cross to be our genie."

n the video you'll see at the bottom of this post, grifters prosperity preachers Kenneth Copeland and Jesse Duplantis explain, shamelessly, why they needed their gullible followers to give them free money so they could fly around in their private jets.

If you want to be infuriated, watch the video. It's cathartic, so go ahead.

If you don't have the patience for that, I can give you their message in a nutshell.

First of all, if they fly commercial, they risk exposing themselves to "demons." The translation of that, I believe, is they don't want to get close to us filthy commoners, so we're "demons."

Besides, us commoners, even if we're not demons, distract them from their important business of praying.

Probably for more gullible people to give them even more money.

They also want to talk to God alone, so we don't want to have other people on a plane distracting these two preachers.

They probably don't want God to be distracted from the multitudes praying to Him that Copeland and Duplantis finally get arrested and charged and jailed for their misdeeds.

The personal jets are also needed, the pair say, because they have to quickly zip off to places having a spiritual crisis only they can solve. With more money begs.

Anyway, here's the infuriating video. It's stunning the hubris they have in actually saying these things in front of a camera:

And if you need an antidote like this, watch the video below the one of Copeland and Duplantis of John Oliver explaining the whole prosperity theology thing in a way that is truly hilarious and makes you understand it so, so well.

Oliver's video is 20 minutes long, but worth every minute to watch

First the crooks, I mean pastors:



Here's John Oliver: