Bob Ross is a better Christian than most.

His appeal bears a stronger relationship to the appeal of The Secret than the appeal of Jesus - his teachings are really, really heavy on the positivism and positive thinking stuff that semi-empowers people and keeps them addicted because anything that goes wrong they blame it on their inability to be positive enough.…

Great verses you pulled there.

Meanwhile, this pastor waded through chest high water to check for survivors in flooded cars. Presumably without being asked. Ignore Christianity for a second and just try harder to be a good person, Osteen.

I don’t think it was him directly, but his staff tweeted photos of flooded church as proof. Then it turned out to be their underground level of a parking garage, not the church proper

Yeah when Trump got mad at North Korea and all of the news outlets were putting out graphics on where to go to be safe if you survive a nuclear attack, my roommates and I settled on the church down the street as the best place within a few minutes of travel that has a basement. Absolutely absurd that that is a…

So I say this as a practicing Jew (so I’m not knocking religion at all) - but this kind of nonsense shows this type of con man for who he really is - not someone who actually has faith, but someone who only wants to use his followers for what he can get out of them.

god i fucking hate that guy. after my dad had his stroke and was in the hospital, my mom would watch joel osteen and it always drove me nuts. she was never really ‘into’ his preaching or anything, i think she just liked how calm his voice was and liked the message. she’s totally over him now and was making it very…

My impression from reading several articles in the matter is that he never actually said the church was flooded. It was other people who said that. He kept quiet and never actually said why they did not open their doors until now. He is a clever motherfucker.

Not only did no one have to ask Mattress Mack to open his doors, but he sent his furniture trucks and employees out to rescue over 200 people. And he dresses up in a mattress costume. He is the truth, man, I love that guy.

Didn’t you hear? The people who saw the injured man beside the road before the good Samaritan came along didn’t stop to help because no one asked them to.

Any church or other religious organization that is physically capable of offering shelter during a disaster and doesn’t should have its tax-free status automatically revoked. They should have to pay taxes like any other business until they can prove their charitable value to the community.

Homosexuality? Unnatural and against god!

Ok, fuckwad, which is it? Your church is open? Your church is flooded? Your church was ALWAYS open? It wasn’t flooded, but the road nearby was? No one asked you to open your church?

Maybe he was just waiting in the dark for the swelling from that cosmetic surgery abated a bit before opening the doors. Yikes, that’s unpretty.

I’ve been following this on Twitter, and the evolution is very interesting. First the church was flooded, and then it wasn’t flooded but it was nearly flooded and people couldn’t get there, and now he’s saying no one asked him to open the church. I would love to hear his explanation for why he blocked so many people…

“This building was one foot from flooding. If we didn’t have our floodgates, it would have flooded,” he said.

His face is so punchable. Prosperity preachers are the god damn worst.

Funny no one had to ask Mattress Matt to open his doors. What a sleaze.

This is the best indictment of Evangelical theological viewpoint of “I’m a good person if I think I’m a good person but don’t need to do good things to be a good person.”