I'm sure he's got a lot of overhead to take care of, and if his congregation starts to thin out, he and his beautiful wife will be broke.
Radical Islam, for one, has produced nothing but poverty and violence for its followers.
Rev. Wright and Obama, his chief protegee, has produced a dangerous form of racism and anti-Americanism.
The Calvinist extremists produced mass executions of Catholics and the Salem witch trials.
The Catholics who couldn't separate their religion and political power produced the reign of bloody Mary in England and the Spanish inquisition.
Their character shaped by the Calvinist persecutions, they later gave us the armies who beat back the Muslim hordes at the gates of Vienna and the Muslim navies off the coast of Lepanto.
The Catholics who gave us Pope John Paul II played a major role in bringing down the iron curtain.
Mormons have given us the most conservative voting religious demographic in America.
Osteen, at the very least, has given us a number of self-improvement best sellers including one which one of his readers successfully used to convince a murderer to give up peacefully.
Meanwhile, those who scream the loudest about cults, have done nothing but divide the faith communities with their Taliban brand of Christianity to such an extent that most mainline Protestant denominations have gone the way of the ELCA in supporting liberal political causes such as gay marriage and colonization of America with third world people with third world values contrary to the principles of freedom and responsibility on which this nation was founded.
No, they won’t be broke. They have probably stashed plenty away because even they know you can carry on a scam only so long. Even Jimmy Swaggart and James Bakker came back from the dead lands though maybe a little singed but still, they are back.
The Osteens are a business model in the Houston area for several congregations and I’ll be switched if I can figure out what the draw is. Mostly entertainment I think. Osteen learned from his daddy really well and took it to a much higher level. The Shook brothers have done so well I think the are about to franchise. The Woodlands, Texas is a profitable area full of do-gooders or wannabes.
I guess one can justify just about anything in the name of God, it has all been tried one time or another.
Every tub has to sit on its own bottom and everybody is going to have to answer for what they have done some time or another whether it is to the law or a Higher Power.
We have the power of discernment and are obligated to use it. If that is judgement, I be the judge.