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"I was talking about the guy not the building he uses for his church. I know other preachers rent out his building like Joyce Meyer as an example. I took about maybe three minutes of his preaching and just gagged."

It seems to me that most of the prosperity preachers are more at home in the Old Testament, where they can find a few nuggets to support their message. But the message of the cross seems pretty alien to his message. He's basically telling people, "Whatever might be happening in your life right now, some day God is going to make you rich." It's like he's offering a Christian version of Lotto.

In the aftermath of the Houston flooding, there were pictures of his house posted here, and Osteen lives like a Saudi prince. I think some of the televangelists are sincere - maybe even Osteen is - but sometimes it seems to me that Christian TV has done more harm than good. For millions of non-Christians, televangelism is what Christianity IS.