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Opinion: A heretic in the White House whose mantra must be, ‘Let us prey’

File photo/John Amis/The Associated Press / Personal pastor to the President Paula White Cain speaks during a Donald Trump campaign event courting devout conservatives by combining praise, prayer and patriotism on Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga.
File photo/John Amis/The Associated Press / Personal pastor to the President Paula White Cain speaks during a Donald Trump campaign event courting devout conservatives by combining praise, prayer and patriotism on Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. File photo/John Amis/The Associated Press / Personal pastor to the President Paula White Cain speaks during a Donald Trump campaign event courting devout conservatives by combining praise, prayer and patriotism on Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga.

For the evangelical Christians who have given — and still give — overwhelming support to President Trump while refusing to criticize him for language and behavior they would presumably denounce in a fellow church member, here’s an easy one for you.

There’s a heretic inside the White House. For those not familiar with the term, it means “a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by their church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.”

Paula White-Cain heads the White House faith office and fits that definition. She is a heretic.

White-Cain is soliciting donations before Easter of $1,000 or more to her “ministry.” In exchange, she promises “7 specific supernatural blessings.” They include God assigning an angel to the donor, being an enemy to your enemies (contradicting Jesus’ command to “love your enemies”), promoting prosperity and curing sickness.

None of this is new for White-Cain and other “prosperity gospel” ministers, but the difference is that she associates, advises and presumably has influence over the president of the United States. In 2020, White-Cain said that God was going to send an angel from Africa and South America (why not Cleveland?) to make sure Donald Trump won that election. The angel must have been delayed by TSA for further screening given the way the election turned out.