576 - Paula White's Pay-To-Pray Scam

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Paula White’s pay-to-pray scam: Trump’s faith advisor wants your cash. (0:32)

— Columbus school district bans candy bribes used to lure kids to Bible classes. (15:00)

— Catholic college faces backlash for inviting former Irish president Mary McAleese to speak at graduation. (24:33)

— South Dakota governor gives employees time off to "celebrate the resurrection" of Jesus. (39:55)

— The global religious exodus: Why people are switching—and ditching—faith. (44:15)

— Utah law now allows religious franchise owners to remain closed on Sundays. (1:00:25)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica. And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.1	Please go to patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast to support this show and get your ad-free
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0:15.2	new material at our merch. New merch store. New merch at the material store, one or the other.
0:22.5	So we'll be back, by the way, in two weeks.
0:25.7	Next week we'll have an interview that I'm excited to share with you all.
0:29.0	And there's so much we have to discuss.
0:32.2	Okay.
0:33.0	So I'm going to start by talking about Paula White because she's gotten a lot of attention this
0:39.5	week.
0:40.7	I can't place that name.
0:42.0	You will in a second.
0:43.0	Great.
0:43.6	Earlier this year, February 7th, Donald Trump announced that Pastor Paula White Kane,
0:50.0	her new married name, is going to be the senior advisor to his new White House faith office.
0:56.4	So she's the Christian in charge of his outreach to other Christians.
1:00.0	He put a lady in charge of a thing?
1:01.6	He did four years ago, too.
1:04.4	And so what does that mean over the past few weeks?
1:07.1	What does that mean?
1:08.0	She's spent all this time reaching out to various religious and
1:12.2	no of course not she's not stopped calling me yeah no she's like jess you're a thought leader in
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