ポーラ・ホワイト研究
ポーラ・ホワイト･･･俺は全くノーマークだったが、YouTubeで彼女の狂信的なトランプ応援演説というか、説教パフォーマンスを見て、俄然興味を持った。この”狂信女牧師”がトランプに影響を与えている、というのだ。日本語では「彼女が統一教会解散について反対意見を表明した」ということ以外に面白い情報がないからWikipedia英語版を見る･･･日本語でないということ以外に、キリスト教について知らない俺には理解が及ばないところが多々。キリスト教はもともと普遍的な価値を説いたものだったはずで、日本人にも理解できる部分が多かったように思うが、最近のアメリカのキリスト教系の新興宗教団体（カルト）は、日本人には理解できなくなっている。（と言うか、日本人には理解しがたい宗教団体が発言力を増している、と言った方がいいか？）
アメリカが理解しにくくなってきている、その背景は、製造業・経済の敗北、自由と平等の矛盾の顕在化、両親の離婚がもたらす絶望ではないのか？？？言い換えれば、貧しくなり、自由競争の結果格差ばかりが広がり、逃げ場を失い、虐待が増え、かつてアメリカにあった”大らかさ”あるいは”余裕”がなくなった、ということだ。
古くて歴史やしがらみにとらわれて不自由な祖国を捨てた移民が建国した「自由と平等の国」アメリカは、「子どもの世代はもっと豊かになっている」という信仰が崩れてしまい、自由も平等も怪しくなった。アメリカの喧伝してきた普遍的と思われた価値は、実は、フロンティアがある、という特殊事情によるアメリカ独自のものだった。そのフロンティアがなくなって、アメリカも普通の国になった。アメリカ人は、それに気づいて他国に普遍的価値を布教するのをやめ、アメリカファーストと言い出した。（普遍的価値を布教し続けて欲しいなら授業料を払えと）トランプはそれを極端に、短兵急に実行しようとしている。フロンティアを失ったアメリカでは、自由と平等は両立しない。古い国々のように中途半端な自由と平等で我慢するのか？それとも自由が勝って平等がひっこむか？（アメリカでは、平等が勝って自由がひっこむことはないような気がする）
①アメリカでは、キリスト教系の新興宗教団体を立ち上げ、TVに出て説教し、売れて、セレブの相談役やアドバイザーになって信者を増やす、というのが一つの「出世」コースだ。当然、批判非難も多いが、屁理屈でも何でも反論して負けないようにする。そうやって出世して大きな票を左右できるとなれば、大統領からも一目置かれるようになる。
②アメリカでは政府・行政が宗教にアプローチするのはご法度だが、宗教側は自由に政府に近づき、政府に入り込むことができる。今のトランプ政権は二つのカルト集団に支配され、トランプは洗脳されていると言ってよいだろう。ひとつはポーラ・ホワイトの福音派保守主義で、聖書絶対。もう一つはピーター・ティール、ヴァンスの哲人政治派で、神のような人による独裁を目指す。両陣営の共通点は反知性・反民主主義。（人間の浅知恵による支配を止めて神様に任せよう･･･例えばSDGｓに反対）だ。
③ポーラ・ホワイトの場合、子供の時に両親が離婚、貧困にあえぎ、虐待も受けた･･･それでも、と言うべきか、そういうバックグラウンドだからか、宗教家として成功する･･･のみならず、大統領に影響を与えるポジションにつく。反知性、反教養の象徴かもしれない。トランプが彼女を重用するのは、彼女と似た育ちの人を惹きつけるという効果がある。（民主党は、この手の人たちを上から目線で見たから嫌われた。）
④このような幼児体験を持つ人は、子供を虐待するのは悪魔の化身だ、と思うようになる･･･民主党員やリベラルなハリウッド俳優などが悪魔の化身で秘密結社を作っているという陰謀論に繋がる。
⑤彼女の、聖書の都合のいいところだけ切り取ってしゃべるという「構文」は、でたらめで気分次第だ。これをトランプは真似している。あるいは、トランプも敬虔な福音派信者なのか？
以下、Wikipediaより：
Paula Michelle White-Cain (née Furr; born April 20, 1966) is an American pastor, author, spiritual advisor, and televangelist. She has written several books and is a leader in the charismatic movement. White is also known for her roles in Donald Trump's two presidential administrations.
＞＞pastorは牧師。spiritual advisorは美輪明宏みたいな存在か？お悩み相談に応じる人？, televangelistは、テレビ福音伝道者 といったところか。
White served as a pastor of Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Florida, a church she co-founded with her then-husband, Randy White, in 1991. From 2011 until May 2019, White was senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida.
＞＞フロリダで別れた夫と新しく教会（宗教団体）を作ったり、牧師をしたりしていた
White is a spiritual advisor to Donald Trump. She served as chair of the evangelical advisory board to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. White delivered the invocation at Trump's first inauguration on January 20, 2017, becoming the first female clergy member to deliver an inaugural invocation. In November 2019, Trump appointed White as a special advisor to the Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison. On February 7, 2025, Trump announced the creation of the White House Faith Office, to be led by White.
＞＞トランプ1期の選挙のときからトランプを応援し、女性牧師として初めて就任式の祈りをささげた。トランプ2期では新設されたホワイトハウス信仰局の局長になった。
Early life
White was born Paula Michelle Furr in Tupelo, Mississippi, the daughter of Myra Joanelle and Donald Paul Furr III. Her parents owned a toy and craft store.[2]
Donald and Myra Furr's marriage began to fail when White was five years old. White's mother left Tupelo and took her to Memphis; her separation from her husband and his subsequent suicide drove White, her brother, and her mother into poverty.[3] White's mother became an alcoholic. While she worked, caregivers looked after her daughter. White has said that she was sexually and physically abused between the ages of six and thirteen by different people on different occasions. White has said that during that time, she suffered from bulimia.[4][5][6]
＞＞彼女が5歳の時、両親は分かれ、母親に引き取られたが貧乏で母親はアル中になった。彼女は6歳から13歳の間に様々な人に性的または肉体的に虐待され、また、過食症になった、と言っている、
White graduated from Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Maryland.[6][7]
While living in Maryland in 1984, White converted to Christianity at the Damascus Church of God. White later stated that she had received a vision from God shortly after her conversion.[2]
Career
Without Walls International Church
The Tampa Christian Center was founded in Tampa, Florida, by the then-married Paula and Randy White in 1991. The church struggled financially and could not afford to pay the Whites a salary for the first two years of its existence. From 1991 to 1998, the church changed locations three times. It was eventually renamed Without Walls International Church.[2] While the church held services in an outdoor tent in 1999, it reported 5,000 attendees a week and 10,000 people ministered to outside the church by 230 outreach ministries.[8]
In 2004, Without Walls International Church reported a congregation of 20,000, making it the largest congregation in the area and the seventh-largest church in the United States.[9] An audit showed that Without Walls received $150 million from 2004 to 2006.[10]
On July 12, 2009, White became the senior pastor of the church. She replaced her former husband, Randy White, who stated that he was stepping down as pastor for health reasons but would remain connected with the church in a different position.[11][12]
On January 1, 2011, White became the senior pastor of the Without Walls Central Church in Lakeland, Florida and thus became the pastor of both locations of the church.[13] In August 2011, services ceased at the Lakeland campus when electricity was disconnected after the church failed to pay over $50,000 in bills.[14] In 2011, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley issued a report outlining his committee's findings regarding Without Walls, but took no additional action.[15]
On June 20, 2012, Randy White resumed leadership of the Tampa location.[16]
Without Walls filed for bankruptcy in 2014.[17] In a 2017 interview, White stated that she had already resigned from Without Walls at the time of the bankruptcy filing and had played no role in the bankruptcy.[18]
＞＞元夫とフロリダで始めたWithout Walls International Churchは2014年に財政的に破綻したが、彼女は自分は破綻に関係はないとしている。
New Destiny Christian Center
On December 31, 2011, the New Destiny Christian Center board in Apopka, Florida, announced it had appointed White to succeed Zachery Tims as its senior pastor. New Destiny Christian Center had been searching for a replacement since Tims's death in August 2011.[19] Tims' ex-wife Riva filed a lawsuit against the board of directors but quickly dropped it, citing a hold harmless clause in her 2009 marital settlement agreement.[20] During a service at New Destiny Christian Center, White made the following remarks to the congregation: "I'm not asking you to like me. I'm not asking you to love me or respect me, because I'll do the work to earn that. I always ask people to give me one year of your life, and I promise you will be changed."[20]
＞＞2011年New Destiny Christian Centerの牧師となった彼女の信者への口説き文句「あなたに私を愛せとか尊敬しろとは言わない。これからあなたにそうなって貰うために私は勤める。人生の1年間を預けてもらえればあなたは変われる。」
On May 5, 2019, White announced that she was stepping down as senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center and that her son and his wife would become the new senior pastors. The church would also be renamed City of Destiny.[21][22]
＞＞2019年、彼女は New Destiny Christian Centerの牧師の職を息子夫婦に譲ると発表。
Paula White Ministries
White recorded the first broadcast of Paula White Today in December 2001. By 2006, her show appeared on nine television networks, including Trinity Broadcast Network, Daystar, and Black Entertainment Television.[2][7][23]
＞＞2001年以降、彼女はTVでの説教に出演するようになった。
Ebony magazine said of White, "You know you're on to something new and significant when the most popular woman preacher on the Black Entertainment Network is a white woman."[24]
White considers T. D. Jakes her spiritual father. Jakes invited her to speak at his 2000 "Woman Thou Art Loosed" conference. White also participated in the Mega Fest, hosted by Jakes in Atlanta, in 2004, 2005 and 2008.[25][26]
White has ministered to Michael Jackson, Gary Sheffield, and Darryl Strawberry.[2] In 2003, after Strawberry completed a prison sentence for cocaine possession, White became his personal pastor. Charisse Strawberry, Darryl's wife at the time, worked as an assistant to White, accompanying her on speaking engagements.[7][27][28] White is the "personal life coach" of Tyra Banks and appeared on her show, the Tyra Banks Show, in an episode on promiscuity on October 4, 2006.[23]
＞＞彼女は、マイケル・ジャクソン、ゲイリー・シェフィールド、ダリー・ストロベリー、タイラ・バンクスといった有名な黒人芸能人、メジャーリーガーなどのバックアップをした。
White's ministry began to take on modern-day prophetic aspects in the early 2010s that are common in Independent Charismatic Christianity. At that time, she called Independent Charismatic archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams her spiritual father. White has called herself an apostolic leader since 2012.[29] She is a leader in the movement.[30][31]
In March 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, White said, "We are a hospital for those who are soul sick, those who are spiritually sick."[15] After widespread criticism of an Arizona event scheduled for April 9, 2020, for which she had promised "supernatural protection" from COVID-19, White withdrew from the fundraiser.[32]
＞＞コロナに対しては、超自然の力が守ってくれる、とした。
Donald Trump
White became a personal minister to Donald Trump after he watched her television show.[33] White said he first contacted her by telephone in 2002.[34] Trump brought White to Atlantic City on multiple occasions for private Bible studies and has appeared on her television show.[2] In June 2016, White was credited by evangelical leader James Dobson with having converted Trump to Christianity.[35] White was part of Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board during his 2016 campaign for president,[36] and she provided the invocation prayer during Trump's inauguration ceremony.[37][38][39] White is the first female clergy member to deliver an inaugural invocation.[40]
＞＞2002年、TVで彼女を見たトランプから連絡してきた、と彼女はいう。ジェイムス・ドブソンによれば、彼女がトランプをキリスト教徒にした、と。
Beginning in June 2016, White served as one of Trump's spiritual advisors.[41] Following Trump's 2016 election, White held various prayer circles with him in the White House.[42][43]
In 2019, Trump appointed White to an advisory role at the White House's Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiative.[44][45]
White supported Trump in his 2020 reelection campaign, delivering a prayer at his June 2020 campaign launch event.[46][43] White warned that "Christians that don't support President Trump will have to answer to God."[46] One day after the election, when election results showed Trump was losing to Joe Biden, White appeared at a live-streamed prayer service in which she spoke in tongues and repeatedly called on "angelic reinforcement" from angels from Africa and South America to secure Trump's reelection.[47] The clip went viral across the Internet, with some people expressing outrage at White.[48]
＞＞2020年大統領選では「トランプを支持しないキリスト教徒は神に罰せられる」と言った。バイデン勝利が有力になると、彼女は神様がアフリカや南アメリカからトランプ再選のために天子を使わすと繰り返し発言した。これが切取られて拡散した。
On January 6, 2021, at the pro-Trump rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol, White offered an opening prayer before Trump's speech.[49][50]
＞＞2021年の議事堂占拠の時にも彼女はトランプの演説の前に祈った。
On February 6, 2025, shortly after his second inauguration, Trump announced the creation of a White House Faith Office[51] with White as its leader.[52][53] The appointment of White to lead the White House Faith Office drew criticism from some Christian leaders, including conservative evangelicals.[54][55][56]
＞＞彼女のホワイトハウス信仰局の局長人事には保守福音派を含むいくつかのキリスト教派リーダーから批判の声が上がっている。
Political and theological views
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White has been described as a Christian nationalist and a "Christian Trumpist" who has forged close political ties with Donald Trump.[57] Unlike some other Christian nationalists associated with Trump, White has been described as valuing Christian identity over racial identity. She has surrounded herself with a racially diverse network of Independent Charismatic leaders from across the United States and the Global South, including prominent figures in African American, Latino, and African Pentecostal communities.[57] White was amongst the first prominent Independent Charismatic leaders to embrace the populism of Trump, coming to his side even before the 2016 Republican primaries; she helped rally support for Trump within evangelical circles.[57
＞＞彼女は、キリスト教徒かどうかを人種より優先する。従って、彼女のネットワークはアメリカにとどまらず、グローバルサウスにも広がっている。2016年の共和党予備選以前からトランプをサポートし、トランプ流ポピュリズム（反議会、反三権分立、反官僚）に共鳴するリーダーとして突出していた。
White is a proponent of prosperity theology.[36][58]
＞＞彼女は、アメリカン・プロテスタント特有の、現世での成功は神の意志というprosperity theolpgy信者だ。
White has been criticized for her religious beliefs by some theologians and conservative evangelists.[59] Christian rapper Shai Linne criticized her in a song called "Fal$e Teacher$".[60][61][62] In response to her critics,[10][63] in 2017, White said, "I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan, and an addict. It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and that I deny the Trinity! My life and my decisions have been nowhere near perfect, though nothing like what has been falsely conveyed in recent days."[64]
>>彼女は保守的福音派からも批判されているし、クリスチャン・ラッパーのシャイ・ラインも歌で批判している。彼女は「私の人生は完璧なものではないが、ここ数年、悪意を持って語られるほどひどくもない。」と反論する。
White enthusiastically supported Trump's 2017 decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.[65]
＞＞トランプは2017年エルサレムをイスラエルの首都としたが、これ熱狂的に支持した。
In January 2020, White was criticized for a sermon in which she prayed for the miscarriage of "all Satanic pregnancies." White later wrote on Twitter that the comment had been a metaphor, and a reference to Ephesians 6.[66][67] André Gagné, scholar of American evangelicalism and the New Apostolic Reformation, states White's "words were misinterpreted" given the context of her spiritual warfare prayer and the cryptic language used. Instead, he argues, the terminology refers to the destruction of evil schemes against Christians. Gagné has referred to White as "one of the most vocal advocates of spiritual warfare".[68]
＞＞2020年、彼女の「satanic pregnancies（=望まれぬ妊娠）に流産を」という発言に対し「全ての妊娠は神の意志だから『望まれぬ妊娠』などない」という批判が持ち上がった。一方で、彼女はspirutual warfaee=「悪魔との戦い」を強烈な言葉で訴えるから誤解されるなどという擁護論もあった。
In December 2021, White participated in the "Prayer Rally for Peace on the Korean Peninsula," hosted by the Unification Church's Universal Peace Federation. During the event, she called Hak Ja Han Moon, the widow of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, "a jewel from God" and lauded "Mother Moon for her great work as a spiritual leader who loves the Lord and seeks to carry out and to comfort the heart of God in all the areas of conflict in the world."[69]
＞＞2021年、統一教会の韓鶴子を賛美した。
Immigration
In a July 2018 interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network, White criticized immigration advocates who cited the Gospel's account of Jesus migrating to Egypt, saying: "Yes, he did live in Egypt for three-and-a-half years. But it was not illegal. If he had broken the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah."[70]
White embraced Trump's immigration policy,[71] including the detention of immigrant children, saying conditions at a border facility that she visited were not inhumane.[72]
＞＞2018年、移民推進派から「マタイ伝に、生まれたてのイエスが両親に連れられてエジプトに逃げたとあるのも移民だ」と言われ、「イエスがエジプトに行ったことには違法性はない。違法移民は罪だ」と反論した。トランプの移民政策擁護論である。
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