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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Pay-to-pray': Trump reportedly charging supporters $100,000 to attend church service with him
The day before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly be attending an interfaith prayer service in Washington D.C. His wealthiest supporters can also attend if they write or solicit a big enough check.
That's according to a recent report in Religion News Service (RNS), which published promotional material from Trump's inaugural committee showing a list of different tiers of "benefits" depending on how much a donor gives. On Saturday, January 18, donors can get tickets to a "Make America Great Again Victory Rally," a Cabinet reception and a dinner with Vice President-elect JD Vance. And on Sunday, January 19, donors who give $100,000 or raise $200,000 can get two tickets to the "One America, One Light Sunday Service." RNS reporter Jack Jenkins described it as a "pay-to-pray" event.
Jenkins reported that the location of the service has yet to be announced and that it remains unclear who is hosting the "One America, One Light" prayer service. But Sean Feucht a conservative Evangelical activist who has promoted Christian nationalism is hosting an event dubbed "Revive in '25" the day before Trump's inauguration.
Feucht's event is reportedly being hosted at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church on Capitol Hill. However, the Rev. William H. Gurnee, who is the pastor at St. Joseph's, insisted that he hadn't given Feucht permission to use his church.
"While I was asked to host the event, I informed the organizer that I needed more information and it was mistakenly reported that final permission was granted," Gurnee told RNS. "It is my feeling that this event would be better hosted at another location."
https://www.alternet.org/pay-to-pray-trump/
jls4561
(1,600 posts)badhair77
(4,661 posts)toss the money changers from the building. Id think about paying to see trump meet Gods wrath.
Initech
(102,502 posts)I really hope Satan has a special circle of hell reserved for the whole lot of them!
Grolph_
(124 posts)Where, who knows, probably end up virtual and he still keeps the cash.
He is a thief. Emoluments anyone?
TheRickles
(2,468 posts)Using his gov't position to make money for his private businesses was straightforward enough for anyone to understand. Very black-and-white, unlike the morass of legal details that prevented the hearings from gaining real momentum.
Dave Bowman
(3,851 posts)sop
(11,568 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(280 posts)I was told this by two Corinthians!
Ping Tung
(1,420 posts)tanyev
(44,727 posts)allegorical oracle
(3,386 posts)He's a lame duck. So, to what and to whom are donors donating?
Retrograde
(10,728 posts)According the OP, he hasn't cleared this event with the people responsible for the venue, but since Donnie believes he has a "mandate" it's all OK - what Dear Leader wants, Dear Leader gets.
Maybe there will be a freak bolt of lightning during the event - if so, I'll reconsider my belief in a benevolent deity.
wnylib
(24,749 posts)Might even make a few of them think.
Tarzanrock
(487 posts)I can remember reading in a Holy Book how Jesus, the Son of God, physically whipped the shit out of some immoral, fucked-up money changers at the Temple.
TheRickles
(2,468 posts)Irish_Dem
(59,651 posts)Irish_Dem
(59,651 posts)Genuine Bible Jesus wrote and sold to his own followers.
Genuine cross Jesus made into necklaces.
And of course all the little MAGA hats Jesus made himself.
We all know Jesus sold tickets to the Last Supper.
Trump has copies of those tickets and could sell them.
So many possibilities.
Norbert
(6,609 posts)It sounds like there is no teeth for punishment of Simony. Anyhow, the orange malignancy is as much a man of the cloth as I am another basketball great equal to Stephen Curry.
Dipshit donnie continues to stretch the boundaries of grifting.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,823 posts)Or maybe I should just call them Edon.
Takket
(22,659 posts)Ping Tung
(1,420 posts)Maybe he can take over the old "dispensation" business and sell tickets to heaven even if you continue sinning.
Of course God will probably demand his own cut.
lame54
(37,198 posts)Orrex
(64,323 posts)If God doesn't show up and smite every last one of them, we can definitively conclude that there is no God.
Just kidding. That ship sailed many millennia ago, but the situation is still hilarious.
2naSalit
(93,420 posts)A little spontaneous combustion!
Still have that spot open on my BINGO card!
Buddyzbuddy
(58 posts)Blue Owl
(54,910 posts)Milk every last penny off these suckers
keithbvadu2
(40,487 posts)otchmoson
(79 posts)Why should the current crop of televangelists make all the money. This guy can practice on our dime and be ready to grift bigtime when (if) he leaves office.
rasputin1952
(83,215 posts)This butt-nugget has absolutely no shame.
Oops, pardon me, we all knew that.
From what I can recall from my Lutheran upbringing, the only time JC ever got angry, was when he came across the 'Money-Changers" at the Temple in Jerusalem.
There are religious people out there that try to keep true to their faiths (I'm not one of them) and then there are cynical, miscreants like DJT, who's gods are money and recognition, thier religion is Greed. I respect the former and despise the latter.
I am a tolerant atheist, I've sat by the beds of people who were exhaling their last breath, just so they would not die alone. I've seen families who never visited their "loved one's" while in hospitals or hospice, but showed up the next day to strip rings off of fingers, go through clothes and wallets, purses, before I would take the body to the morgue. I am nowhere near perfect, I judge people by their actions, I say nothing, I observe. I've seen countless acts of love and caring. There are always a few whom I can say I despise, but I keep it to myself.
Except:
I have never held back on my loathing of DJT, but this is even more despicable than previous actions.
I'm an atheist, I do believe that whatever format this jerk pays off to hold this event, that the event has two individuals in attendance, DJT and the low life that would accept his "30 pieces of silver."
Turbineguy
(38,496 posts)Born to grift.
Blue_Tires
(56,725 posts)He's already a cult leader, might as well make it official 😒
ancianita
(38,871 posts)allow such a "service," because Catholic churches don't hold "worship service."
https://stjosephsdc.org/home/mass-times/
"While I was asked to host the event, I informed the organizer that I needed more information and it was mistakenly reported that final permission was granted," Gurnee told RNS. "It is my feeling that this event would be better hosted at another location."
Like all Catholic churches without exception, they celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass only. That's it and that's all.
https://adw.org/parishes/st-josephs-on-capitol-hill/
FakeNoose
(35,998 posts)ancianita
(38,871 posts)no sense in the catechism and liturgy of Jesus's 20-century old church founded on Peter, the apostle who first proclaimed him the Messiah.
No Catholic parish priest or diocesan bishop would allow such a thing.
Any protestant church would, but not the apostolic Catholic church.
"Interfaith" Christian believers of Luther's adherents from 5 centuries ago are considered "ecclesiastical communities" by the Catholic church.
Seinan Sensei
(742 posts)Ill let them come sit next to me in church for the low, low price of $100
keithbvadu2
(40,487 posts)Ocelot II
(121,460 posts)I'm surprised he hasn't started charging people to watch him take a dump.
Oneear
(97 posts)It takes money to make the payoffs, Just like the money changers at the Temple does not end, and your Wallet is thinner
Geechie
(958 posts)If you know what I mean
Trellastic
(46 posts)he was eaten by worms.🪱🪱 According to some commentary King Herod wasn't instantly eaten by worms, but at some point after he had been struck down. There is even an article about the health conditions of King Herod Agrippa which state that he had kidney disease and that his genitals were infested with worms (https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98107&page=1).
Acts 12:18-24
New English Translation
18 At daybreak there was great consternation among the soldiers over what had become of Peter. 19 When Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and commanded that they be led away to execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.
20 Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the kings personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their countrys food supply was provided by the kings country. 21 On a day determined in advance, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the judgment seat, and made a speech to them. 22 But the crowd began to shout, The voice of a god, and not of a man! 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died. 24 But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.
BibleGateway.com
keithbvadu2
(40,487 posts)Donald J. Trump who ridicules Holy Communion.
Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn
kacekwl
(7,648 posts)is not struck by lightning then that proves there is no god.
JoseBalow
(5,630 posts)A magnet for gullible rubes.
Norbert
(6,609 posts)canetoad
(18,252 posts)The Church of the Blighted Hypocrite. Shameless.
FakeNoose
(35,998 posts)And God damn whatever church that makes this grifting possible.
Blue_Tires
(56,725 posts)malaise
(278,740 posts)Happy Holidays CatWoman😀