Shame it’s not called Ivanka - a mass of endlessly spinning hot air that trails disaster and misery in its wake.

Raise your hand if your post-break up routine is more like: hermiting, watching horror or romance or comedy films, crying into your comfort food and declaring that you’ll never love again.

I dunno, I’m not sure about taking any kind of interpersonal advice from somebody that got expelled from college for punching someone. I’ve managed to go my whole life without punching someone, and I feel like it hasn’t been too hard to avoid, even when I’m miffed.

I think therein lies the answer — it’s not a church. It’s a money collecting system and tax haven that occasionally holds services and does charitable work to maintain its status.

Reading their guidelines, they appear terrified of stains and particularly of red punch. I’m sure they didn’t want poor people mussing their carpets.

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.…

I do think it was overblown, but I think people are missing a little bit that the Church building is a symbol of a larger inaction. He pumped out platitudes on social media while other religious leaders were reaching out to their communities.

I’m a Pastor and can easily believe that there are lots of logistical reasons Lakewood might have been unsafe or inappropriate as a shelter - but Osteen still handled this as badly as you possibly could. If a natural disaster happened in our church’s town I know we would be saying *something* immediately even if we…

What would Jesus Botox?

There is a 400-room hotel across the street that enough people managed to get to to fill every room. Do not believe this guy’s excuses.

The thing is, NONE OF HIS PEOPLE WILL CARE.

I am 99% sure they are lying. Also, facilities aside, why the fuck wasn’t this charlatan doing shit for his own congregation? Setting up shelter, mobilizing volunteers, setting up checkins for elderly and vulnerable church members? 40,000 in the congregation and 20 people showed up to volunteer? Even if you ignore the…

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.

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?

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…

There’s a woman I went to school with who posted a status update about a year ago that she had finally fulfilled her lifelong dream, one that she had nurtured throughout her childhood in an incredibly poor African country. That dream? To go to a service at Lakewood fucking Church. The top of my head blew clear off

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

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.”