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styles-toneOpinion--1gMyj elementStyles-label--1-Nry elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">Op-Ed Contributor</p><h1 class="Heading1-heading1--20o8k styles-heading1--2Ap5d styles-toneOpinion--1gMyj elementStyles-heading1--UcIYs elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1 Heading1-toneOpinion--2eiZR" itemProp="headline"><span class="Heading1-headline--8Qzcc balance-text">The Cheap Prosperity Gospel of Trump and Osteen</span></h1><div class="styles-bylineTimestamp--2J2fe styles-toneOpinion--1gMyj"><div class="elementStyles-byline--33rWc styles-byline--Dn1Bu styles-toneOpinion--1gMyj"><div class="Byline-bylineGroup--2XIy_"><p class="">By<!-- --> <span class="Byline-bylineAuthor--d8i20 elementStyles-authors--voZdU">Anthea Butler</span></p></div></div><time class="Timestamp-timestamp--3FJff elementStyles-timestamp--26VGL styles-timestamp--KJFCK" dateTime="2017-08-30" itemProp="datePublished" content="2017 - 08 - 30">Aug. 30, 2017</time></div></header><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">Before it began to rain in Houston last week, the spectacularly wealthy pastor Joel Osteen could have opened up his megachurch to serve as a logistics center. He could have announced that evacuees were welcome to take shelter there when Hurricane Harvey landed. Instead he wrote tweets like “God’s got this” and “don’t drift into doubt and fear … stay anchored to hope.” Only a couple of his posts on Twitter offered “prayers.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">On Sunday, Mr. Osteen’s church announced that it was inaccessible because of “flooding.” But intrepid journalists <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/SeanUnfiltered/status/902314878303703041" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">proved</a> otherwise. After Mr. Osteen was humiliated on social media, he finally opened the 16,800-seat church to the public on Tuesday. When asked about the delay, Mr. Osteen <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/902862187764514816" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">said</a> that “the city didn’t ask us to become a shelter.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">President Trump, too, revealed his morally bankrupt soul during the storm when he said that he timed his pardon of the racist former sheriff Joe Arpaio to coincide with the hurricane’s landfall because he assumed that it would garner “far higher” TV ratings than usual. Mr. Trump did visit Texas, but <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/902620363485478912" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">there was apparently no mention of dead or displaced Texans</a>, and no expressions of sympathy.</p><figure class="ResponsiveMedia-media--32g1o ResponsiveMedia-toneOpinion--1X884 ResponsiveMedia-sizeMedium--3hVlk ResponsiveMedia-toneOpinion--1X884" aria-label="media" role="group" itemProp="associatedMedia" itemID="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/30/opinion/30butlerWeb/30butlerWeb-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" itemType="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><div class="ResponsiveMedia-container--G2JS6 ResponsiveMedia-toneOpinion--1X884"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Image</span><img alt="" class="Image-image--2zb04" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/30/opinion/30butlerWeb/30butlerWeb-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" srcSet="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/30/opinion/30butlerWeb/30butlerWeb-articleLarge.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 600w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/30/opinion/30butlerWeb/30butlerWeb-jumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/30/opinion/30butlerWeb/30butlerWeb-popup.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 650w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/30/opinion/30butlerWeb/30butlerWeb-superJumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 2048w" sizes="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw"/></div><figcaption class="ResponsiveMedia-caption--1dUVu Media-caption--wlc0l ResponsiveMedia-toneOpinion--1X884" itemProp="caption description"><span class="ResponsiveMedia-captionText--2WFdF Media-captionText--2e27a">Joel Osteen at his Lakewood Church in Houston on Tuesday.</span><span class="ResponsiveMedia-credit--3F-q_ Media-credit--1ZFho" itemProp="copyrightHolder"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Credit</span><span>LM Otero/Associated Press</span></span></figcaption></figure><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen are mirrors of each other. Both enjoy enormous support among evangelicals, yet they <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/19/americas-most-popular-pastor-doesnt-know-the-bible/#ixzz42tRme486" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">lack</a> a command of biblical scripture. Both are among the 1 percent.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are the worst kind of crises for people like Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen, who purvey their own versions of the prosperity gospel. This is a belief that says if you think positively and make affirmations, God will reward you with financial success and good health. If you don’t, you may face unemployment, poverty or sickness. (Mr. Trump in particular always speaks in laudatory terms about himself and his companies.)</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">But the problem is that it’s hard to promote “Your Best Life Now” or “The Art of the Deal” to people whose houses have flooded or been blown away, or to evacuees who have only the clothes on their backs.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">Mr. Trump’s and Mr. Osteen’s <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/15/how-the-prosperity-gospel-explains-donald-trumps-popularity-with-christian-voters/?utm_term=.f13e531f0a56" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">brands</a> are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do not provide the winning narratives crucial to keep adherents chained to prosperity gospel thinking. That is why it is easy for both men to issue platitudes devoid of empathy during natural disasters. They lack compassion for people who are not prosperous, because those people simply did not follow the rules.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">This empathy-less prosperity gospel also permeates attitudes about the role of our government. Consider when Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said in March that poverty was a “state of mind.” Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama echoed this in a May <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/republican-sick-people-dont-deserve-affordable-care.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">interview</a> when he said that “people who lead good lives” don’t have to deal with pre-existing medical conditions. This kind of thinking by the Republicans, that individual effort and religious faith are paramount, has desensitized them to poverty, disaster and the vagaries of disease. They have already cut millions from federal disaster aid, and if an uptick in disasters occurs, many more people will die.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen aren’t the first to display such tone deafness. President George W. Bush, an evangelical known for his “compassionate conservatism,” was crucial in promoting an individual ethic of compassion. “Government cannot solve every problem,” Mr. Bush said in 2002, “but it can encourage people and communities to help themselves and to help one another.” What that really meant was churches, rather than the government, needed to administer social aid programs. The self-reliance of individuals and communities would substitute for federal support.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">So while the storm churns through Texas and Louisiana, causing floods, death and misery, it is time to consider the damage the prosperity gospel has done to America. Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen unwittingly revealed its ugly underbelly: the smugness, the self-aggrandizing posturing. It has co-opted many in the Republican Party, readily visible in their relentless desire to strip Americans of health care, disaster relief and infrastructure funding.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">Now Ted Cruz and Texas Republicans seek federal disaster aid, although they voted against the same in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The Republicans in states affected by the disaster will find out soon enough what it feels like to come to Washington and relief organizations with their hat in their hands.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1">The survivors of Hurricane Harvey do not need empty tweets and platitudes from people like Donald Trump and Joel Osteen. They have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as we say in Texas, they are all hat and no cattle.</p><div class="bottom-of-article"><div class="elementStyles-addendums--1S4tV elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1"></div><div class="elementStyles-extendedInformation--3NG2u elementStyles-toneOpinion--19bv1"><p><em> </em></p><p>Anthea Butler (<a href="https://twitter.com/AntheaButler">@AntheaButler</a>) is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “<a href="https://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807858080/women-in-the-church-of-god-in-christ/">Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World</a>.”<em> </em></p> <p><em>Follow The New York Times Opinion section on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nytopinion">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/NYTOpinion">Twitter (@NYTopinion)</a>, and sign up for the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/opiniontoday/">Opinion Today newsletter</a>. <br /></em></p></div><div 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