There are a lot of ‘gullible’ sheep right here whom are easily fooled by the osteen kid’s fraud and false teaching. How do they get that way? How is it that they are so taken in by this Baker/Swaggerrt clone? Pretty sad really to think about it. Ask them about osteen’s comments about obama: “doing a good job”(!!!!!???) .....crickets. Nothing. Ask ‘em about osteen calling the muslim Barry: “A Christian” (!!!!??)......crickets. Nothing. Their silence on that sort of obama loving is quite telling isn’t it? This charlatan osteen is brilliant regarding separating his simple minded snowed ‘believers’ from their hard earned money, I’ll give him that. His ability to convince the not to bright to keep sending in money to keep he and his wife in their opulent lifestyle is also well done. He is good at it. VERY good at it. Of course it is not so hard for a major league pitcher to throw his fastball by 10 year old player is it? So maybe he isn’t so good....just that the targets of his for selfish money grubbing pleas are so weak and easily fooled.
I understand your point. But, in my point of view, in your post, you could replace Osteen with The Pope or Catholic Church.
Posting a devotional from Mr. Osteen is not the end of the world. Nor is posting the Catholic Caucus or the various other Catholic Threads that are posted.
But is it really worth getting all worked up about? Calling people names, running people off, etc...
"They" get that way because at some point church going America decided to cede their responsibility to STUDY! to someone else. Not unlike the catholic church.
I can remember a time when the catholic church did not want its members having copies of the Bible. Their hierarchy thought Biblical interpretation was too important to be left up to "laymen."
When people stop studying and learning on their own, what the Bible teaches, then they are ripe for Olsteens, and Bakkers, and Swaggarts.