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Why America hates Joel Osteen

By Jim on Wed, 08/30/17
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
Joel Osteen

The prosperity gospel has an unpopular answer to the problem of evil in the world. Its central claim - “Everyone can be prosperous!”-contains its own conundrum.

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Bert Perry

NewProgress

Wed, 08/30/17

The Babylon Bee gets honored in the Strib!

But seriously, I think the article is overstated. Most of the country, as far as I can tell, didn’t know or care about Osteen until some careless words suggested his church was callous to the needy. And as a progression of televangelists and prosperity hucksters would beg to tell us, a lot of us love our prosperity theologians. One might even suggest that we elected one last November.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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Topics: Kanye West, Christian Celebrities, Prosperity Gospel, Joel Osteen
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  • Osteen on Piers Morgan: “Yes, I’ve always believed, Piers, the Scripture shows that homosexuality it’s a sin,”
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