Trump makes his Evangelical sycophants swallow a woman pastor as head of White House Faith Office

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/irony-in-trumps-choices-to-serve-in-his.html

Trump is staffing his newly created White House Faith Office, which I think is a violation of the establishment clause of the first amendment of the constitution if it is taxpayer funded, or if it receives, rent-free use of office space, since it would then be an "established" endorsement of religion by government, with some interesting individuals. On the surface, it may just look like the face of the extremism among conservative Evangelicals, mostly the "prosperity gospel" preaching and theology that isn't really Christianity by its own biblical definition, to which Trump and his love of money and power is attracted, because it offers him more than the "loving your neighbor", "turning the other cheek," and "repenting from your sin" brand of Christianity that he rejects openly, with vitriol.

But there are some interesting contradictions here that point to the fact there is absolutely no genuine Christian support for anything having to do with Trump's far right wing extremism, and that the combination of far right wing Republicanism with ultra-conservative fundamentalist and Charismatic Evangelicalism is both a political and a religious cult, built on monumental hypocrisy.

Those among the leadership of the denomination who are the most opposed to allowing women to serve in a pastoral role are condescending and critical of churches who engage in this practice. They go so far as to claim that those churches are apostate, and are outside the circle of Christian orthodoxy, and are caustic and condemning in their criticism, in a way that is not reflective of the core values of the Christian faith.

So I wonder how these individuals, among whom there must certainly be a healthy number of Trump supporters, are handling his appointment of a female senior pastor, Paula White Cain, who uses the biblical term "overseer," in Greek "Episkopos", or Bishop to describe her role as pastor of Story Life Church in Florida, a large, Charismatic church that preaches pure prosperity gospel. Of course Trump, with his love of money, is attracted to that kind of gospel, which is more or less the antithesis of the Christian gospel that Jesus preached and taught.

It makes me laugh to myself to think that some of these hard line fundamentalists, like those of the Jerry Falwell ilk, have to swallow this because Trump has done it and they can't utter a peep in opposition. Well, they could, and if their claimed convictions were sincere, and their Christian faith were real, they would speak up. They lose on at least three points here. First, she is a female, senior pastor and executive director of a worldwide mission organization operating in about 150 countries. So she is a female in leadership over ministries that these hardliners are claiming is heresy worthy of being kicked out of the faith.

[underpants]

1. There is a lot of irony with this

but irony doesn’t register with them.

[Trust_Reality]

2. White House Faith Office?

Keep that but do away with the Department of Education?

Sounds like the 17th century.