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Born and raised catholic, believe in Christ, don't think the church is hurting.

Any way here is a picture of Joel Osteen's house.

Expecting sling and arrows from both sides, flame away.

1 posted on 05/08/2025 1:48:28 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

He’s got twenty million dollars
In his heavenly bank account
You ain’t got nothin’, people
You ain’t got nothin’, people
You ain’t got nothin’, people
Thank the man, oh, yeah


2 posted on 05/08/2025 1:50:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I can’t imagine wanting to take care of something like that. It looks like it could have rooms the inhabitants have never even seen...


3 posted on 05/08/2025 1:51:16 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

I’m sure the Vatican keeps two sets of books.


4 posted on 05/08/2025 1:51:22 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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It’s funny when members of the Catholic Church call another church a mega church as if the Catholic Church isn’t the mega-est Church of all. Osteen would go crazy with that much in resources.


5 posted on 05/08/2025 1:51:59 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DallasBiff

>> Instead, the Vatican provides for the pontiff’s needs

Who provides for his wife & kids?


6 posted on 05/08/2025 1:57:52 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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“”an economy that relies on a combination of donations, private enterprises, and investments to generate revenue,”

Booked our Vatican tour ... OUCH!


7 posted on 05/08/2025 1:58:06 PM PDT by TexasGator (1I11111111111.1'11.'11/'~~'111./.)
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If Jesus were walking the earth today, and saw the incredible luxury the pope and the rest of the residents of the Vatican live in, I don’t think he would be happy. Just my 2 cents.


8 posted on 05/08/2025 1:58:20 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan ( )
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t follow any shuck and jive con man preachers. Saw through them many years ago and although I am still a Christian believer, I do not attend Church services.

Most of them are corrupted and full of Satan.


11 posted on 05/08/2025 2:01:37 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: DallasBiff

The Pope and Joel Osteen, pretty much the same guys, except Osteen living in a typical rich celebrity’s house versus the Vatican and nation status, hundreds of military bodyguards and such, OK.


12 posted on 05/08/2025 2:02:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DallasBiff

New series coming this Fall on NBC: “Chicago Pope”


22 posted on 05/08/2025 2:20:17 PM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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At least throughout history the Catholic Church has beautified and elevated the architecture and aesthetics of the cities they inhabit! Can’t really say the same for modern Protestants and Evangelicals. 🫤

Preserving Vatican City — all the art and buildings thereof — alone is worth every penny and every generation’s commitment until Jesus comes back!

Joel Osteen has also been accused of keeping his church doors shut during natural disasters in the Houston area etc…But I’ve also heard the opposite. That behind the scenes he is very generous with his money for good causes.

23 posted on 05/08/2025 2:23:19 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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The Economic Times reported back in February, adding that the pontiff at the time had a net worth of “around $16 million, which includes various assets provided to him as the pope.” Sounds like a good gig. I wonder how I can get the job? I’m even Catholic, I think.


25 posted on 05/08/2025 2:26:21 PM PDT by kawhill ("but that don't say nothin bout a mulefoot. what's a mulefoot? mountain hog from north of here.")
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Looks like you have to swim to get to the pool


28 posted on 05/08/2025 2:40:50 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: DallasBiff

Any way here is a picture of Joel Osteen’s house.

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There’s something creepy about that place.


30 posted on 05/08/2025 3:11:02 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: DallasBiff

Well, I do know someone who thinks he’s wonderful but personally I’m always skeptical of these tv preachers.

They do pretty well in the money game. I always wonder if that’s the real story. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know the guy personally.

But i did know someone who wasa very charismatic guy. Not religious, at all, In fact smoked grass since the fifties, occasional party drugs, cocaine like that. Sort of a James Coburn kind of person, sarcastically witty. Likeable.

Somehow or other, I think he did a job for the guy, (he was a furniture refinisher in LA, considered a ‘master finisher’, anyway he met one of these traveling circuit preachers. A very successful one. He asked him to become one of the preachers on the circuit.

So he said back to him, in surprise, ‘Me? I don’t even go to church. I’m not religious, at all’!?

The preacher told him that didn’t matter. A lot of them doing it weren’t, and the money was fabulous.The big bucks.

He didn’t go for it.


34 posted on 05/08/2025 3:57:40 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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As a U.S. citizen, he'll have to pay U.S. income tax on his Pope earning, even if earned overseas.

Yes, the Pope will be paying globalists through the IRS.

37 posted on 05/08/2025 4:38:35 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DallasBiff

Osteen isn’t a Christian pastor. Nothing he says or does would lead me to believe that.


38 posted on 05/08/2025 4:40:26 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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