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Posted: 2020-03-18T09:15:36Z | Updated: 2020-03-18T14:14:05Z Trump Adviser Paula White Wants Money For Her Fake Coronavirus 'Hospital | HuffPost

Trump Adviser Paula White Wants Money For Her Fake Coronavirus 'Hospital

She's asking followers to send "seed" money in honor of a Bible passage that promises protection against pestilence and plague.
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Paula White , the evangelical pastor and spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump , says her ministry is like a hospital and is asking people to send her money for it. 

Except it’s not a real hospital. 

“We are a hospital to the sick,” White said over piano music during an online coronavirus prayer session , quickly adding that it’s for “not necessarily the physically sick.” 

“We are a hospital for those who are soul-sick, those who are spiritually sick,” she said. 

White, who leads Trump’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative , then asked followers for “seed” money. For those who espouse the so-called prosperity gospel, that typically means giving money in the belief that some form of larger prosperity will then be returned to the giver.

“Maybe you’d like to send a $91 seed, and that’s just putting your faith with Psalm 91,” she said. That psalm refers to being saved from “deadly pestilence ” and “plague.” 

White also suggested sending $9 or “whatever God tells you to do,” adding: “Don’t forget, now is not the time to abandon your covenant with God. It’s a time that you go deeper. Stand with your pastor.” 

The clip was posted online by the Friendly Atheist  blog:

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