In a video that's going viral, White House Faith Advisor Paula White promises “seven supernatural blessings” from God Himself if you send her $1,000 or more this Passover season. But act quickly, these blessings are only on sale until Easter!
Meanwhile, critics are asking pointed questions. Are the blessings of God for sale? And does Paula White have the authority to dole them out?
Who is Paula White?
Paula White (who also goes by Paula White-Cain) is a popular televangelist and the head of the recently-formed White House Faith Office. White also served as a faith advisor during President Trump's first term, a decision that attracted attention at the time due to her unique brand of Christianity.
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White delivered a prayer at Trump's first inauguration on January 20, 2017, becoming the first female clergy member to perform that duty.
Faith for Sale?
White's recent ad is grabbing attention for its bold claims about receiving blessings in exchange for large monetary donations.
“I believe that when you honor God on Passover, starting on April 12th at sundown through Good Friday on the 18th and concluding on Easter Sunday, you can receive these seven supernatural blessings for you and your house,” begins the video of White, backed by gentle piano music.
Citing Exodus 23, White says God will bless her followers with seven blessings – including health, prosperity, and even your own personal angel – but only if they send her a gift of at least $1,000.
White frequently teaches that financial blessings are tied to sowing "seed money" into ministries – primarily her own.
Prosperity Gospel In Action
White is one of the most prominent preachers of the prosperity gospel, a controversial Christian theological belief that asserts faith, positive speech, and most importantly, donations to a particular evangelist or church will increase one's material wealth and physical well-being.
Rooted in the idea that God's will is for believers to thrive financially and live in health, the movement has grown worldwide in recent decades. Supporters believe that financial donations to the church bring glory to God, which is then shared with them through earthly benefits and blessings.
However, this philosophy has been widely criticized for promoting a transactional view of faith and exploiting vulnerable followers.
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False Teacher?
Asking followers for money in exchange for holy blessings is not exactly an uncommon practice, and White is hardly the only prosperity preacher out there.
And yet something about this particular proposition has prompted outrage on social media, where it was received by many commenters about as well as a stale post-Easter Peep.
Some fellow Christians have even called for a "false teacher" and demanded her removal from the White House:
Others have turned their spotlight on controversial practices White is involved with, like speaking in tongues:
Oval Office Support
As the backlash continues to spread, White can count on at least one of her flock to stand with her: President Trump, who appeared in that very same video to call her a “very special woman” who has “helped us so much in so many different ways.”
What do you make of White’s promise of health and wealth for her followers in exchange for large sums of money? And more generally: is there merit in prosperity gospel claims?
29 comments
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Robert Hauck, MD, FAAP
Musk buying votes in Wisconsin, Trump promoting Tesla sales on the White House lawn, and now Paula White selling supernatural blessings (plus a personal angel as a bonus) backed by the president's personal endorsement of her and her corrupt ministry. IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY during a Trump administration.
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Reverend Paula Copp
She’s a scammer of the highest order and needs to lose her tax exempt status. She needs to be charged with fraud and return every penny she stole! If there is a Hell, she’s a shoo-in!
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Lawrence A. Benson
The sad thing is that they're selling this "grift" to the ones that can least afford it, the uneducated,poor, MAGA Voters.
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Timothy C Stone
That is exactly how these grifter Prosperity preachers work. They are the only ones that prosper.
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John P Maher
HEY SEND ME a $1000.00 AND I WILL HAVE GOD SHAKE YOUR HAND WHILE YOUR SLEEPING, YEAH RIGHT !
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Michael Hunt
Prosperity gospel is such a gross scam. Giving Paula White money won't bring you closer to God, it just makes Paula White more and more money.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Does she offer a "money back guarantee" if you only get six instead of seven blessings? Is the angel in addition to the guardian angel I already have and the seven blessings? How would anyone know? Sorry sweetheart, but I'll pass.
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Monica Arteaga
And where does the $1,000 go? Right into Paula’s pockets!!! I will gladly Zelle GOD’s bank account if he unleashes 7 condemnations against Trump & for the evil he has brought to our country.
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Yanel Jay Laroche Jr.
True Christians are not suppose to pay anyone to receive a blessing. Christians should also receive a blessing from a minister without paying the minister any money according to 1 Peter 2:16 and Galatians 5:13. We are encouraged to do all things for God's glory according to 1 Corinthians 10:31. Not for money!
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Douglas Robert Spindler
Anyone see how much she has received so far? It's putting the Mormons to shame.
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Douglas Robert Spindler
Yet Christians do it every Sunday.
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Colleen McAllister
No we do not. Collecting money to pay the bills is not the same as what this woman is doing. God's blessings are not for sale. God's kingdom is not for sale. The prosperity gospel is a sham. Fits in with the current administration though, doesn't it
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Ellen B. Wentzel
This is a true scam.
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James Mounts
The only thing new here is that it is video. The scam of Christianity has been around for a couple of thousand years. I remember as a kid watching Oral Roberts instruct the gullible to place their hands on the TV screen to heal whatever other gullible fool he was touching at the time. And, of course, to send him some cash.
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Rev. BH
Lest we forget in this discussion:
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God."
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Robert Gagnon
Are they digital blessings like Orange daddy sells?
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Rev. BH
Here's Paula!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VZVtv--khKE
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Merlin
Before Rome (through Paul), Jesus taught that divinity was within, as indicated by His claim to be “the Son of Man.” Untampered apocryphal or non-canonical gospels contradicted the Church’s efforts to consolidate power and control. Jesus was, in fact, anti-religion in the sense that He taught freedom from institutional control—specifically opposing ritualistic external cleansing, such as prayer baths, in favor of spiritual cleansing through forgiveness, repentance, and love. This posed a threat to Jewish tradition and the REVENUE of the rabbis. Paula White appears to be to adopting a similar REVENUE generation technique.
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Rev. Carol M Anaski-Figurski
Interesting is that for-profit or not for profit enterprise? T's the ? should you pray for a blessing?
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Helen Kahn
What about separation of church and state?
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Reverend Paula Copp
That’s only for the government. She’s a private citizen and she is free to collect her blood money. However, I hope Lady Karma gives Paula White a harsh wake-up call.
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Timothy C Stone
ACT NOW AND GET A FREE SHAMWOW TOWEL!!! Look folks send her that cash, she probably has a new jet ordered. Does tRUMP get a cut from this or will he try the same thing? Wait he already has that Chinese printed God Bless the USA Bible. There is no shame and no bottom to their grifting.
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Timothy C Stone
I saw Mike Murdock on late night tv once and could not believe how low these creeps can get. He was promising a return of 10x your $1000.00. 'If you are saving money for a car or college, or a new home send me that money. ' If you have outstanding credit card debt use that card one more time and you will receive a ten fold return from God.' 'If you don't have the money got to your neighbor and borrow it, and while your there ask if you neighbor wants to send money also.' This is what I actually saw. These people are evil and demonic. Criminals!
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The Rev. William C, Millhouse
She is full of it. Her "god" is the "Almighty Dollar". She is classed with those that caused Jesus to use a rope whip on those who "have made my house a denof theives".
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Pastor Jim
While I would never participate in such, I am firmly in favor of both the freedom of and from religion and balancing personal choice with the right to opt out. Paula White’s $1,000 "Special Blessings" pitch definitely walks a line that tests those freedoms. On one hand, she’s free to preach and fundraise as she sees fit under religious liberty; her ministry’s been doing this kind of thing for years, and people willingly buy in. On the other, the optics of a White House-connected figure tying supernatural promises to big donations can feel coercive to skeptics, especially when it’s draped in spiritual authority. Freedom from religion kicks in when folks start questioning if her influence blurs lines between faith and exploitation—or even state and church, given her advisory gig. It’s a messy overlap, but legally, she’s in her lane.
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Rev. BH
Legally, I guess. Morally, no.
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Daniel Todd Kamm
That she brings Pesach into it... shameless, and shameful. So too the T-Rump administration's efforts to exploit anti-semitism, threaten colleges and universities, and detain students lawfully in our country for utilizing first amendment rights. The right wing is always complaining that the left censors "free speech." But the right wing is actually doing it. First they get power by "demonizing" vulnerable minorities; they undermine colleges/universities, culling out so called "elitists who oppose, critique or speak out against them (there's that first Amendment thing again). Public Education: There will be an official curriculum handed down, to include why the Gulf should be the "Gulf of America" and why "Greenland." Eventually they will get to religious freedom: these are christian nationalists after all. And then they will get to someone you know, then someone you love, and then you.
Because that's what Nazi's do.But maybe your $1000 can buy you 7 passes before they get to you, eh? Peace Out... tk
This administration is not only having car sales on the front lawn of the WH, now they're selling Indulgences. Grifters to the core. There is nothing Christian about this group.
Don't forget in his first infestation of the White House he was selling beans from the Oval Office.