Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Christian values?


Wonderful song-parody of the recent scandal involving Joel Osteen, the scam-artist televangelist in Houston who claimed that his 16,000 seat mega-church was flooded and therefore couldn't accommodate homeless people. Osteen was then caught out by some intrepid whistle-blowing reporters who took a video camera to the property and filmed it being suspiciously "un-flooded", which they subsequently posted on YouTube. Osteen then did the rounds of news programs, seemingly making up different excuses as time rolled on, all very embarrassing for him.

Most people don't care that this man has raked in a net-worth of around $60 Million over the years, most don't care that he's received this money from people who can probably least afford to give it, most people aren't particularly surprised that religious people are so incredibly gullible, most people probably even don't care if his church was closed, open or flooded at all! What really pisses people off is when slick operators like this claim to be one thing and then get caught out being something else people generally dislike hypocrites. Let's hope the social media storm surrounding this event marks the beginning of the end for Mr Osteen, his church and his like.

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