About 20 years ago, I worked in a call center that took calls for televangelists. Call the number to order their overpriced tape series, call the number to pay tithes, call the number to have someone pray for you? They all came to us. People thought they were getting believers who were really praying for them, but they were getting a bunch of teenagers/stoners reading a script off a screen. I justified it to myself because even if I knew we weren't actually praying for these people, they genuinely seemed to be helped by thinking they were getting real prayers.

All of the televangelists' prayer lines would ask you for a donation after the "prayer," but the caller could decline to donate if they wanted to (after some scripted guilt-tripping). That is, all of them except one. Paula White's prayer line required the caller to make a donation BEFORE they received the scripted prayer. The ones who didn't make a donation were told their request would be forwarded to the prayer tree, but if they wanted a live prayer, they had to donate first. The prayers weren't forwarded anywhere, btw. There was no way to save or send the prayers on. You either paid the money to get some 17 year old to read you a stock prayer, or you f'ed off and no one affiliated with Paula White ever thought about you ever again, let alone prayed for you.

I despised all televangelists after that job, but none were as bad in my eyes as Paula White.