“ But I feel so sorry for his wife and son, who are good, good people. Very loyal to him, and that says something about Roger.”

I sure hope you’re donating a significant portion (let’s say 20-30%) of your salary (and not just this month, but MONTHLY) to both hurricane/natural disaster relief efforts and to organization that help fight homelessness, poverty, and offer birth control.

It’s too bad the people who get upset that “nobody stands up for the unborn” sit right back down once the child is born and needs food, clothing, shelter, health care, an education, and all the other things children need to survive. The last thing anyone recovering from a devastating storm needs is a pregnancy to…

So you think that a woman who did not intend to be pregnant in the first place, then just lost her home, her job, and all of her possessions, should let the non-sentient clump of cells inside of her become a person that she can not feed and doesn’t want? You don’t seem to realize that the vast majority of abortions…

It’s amazing how much love people project onto an embryo inside a woman’s body (as long as she doesn’t want it there) and how much disdain they’ll give an actual grown human person.

You mean the clumps of cells that weigh about a much as three nickels and are growing in someone else’s body? They don’t “want” anything. They can’t want anything any more than the tip of your finger can want anything.

They only have to be born before the Republicans will start to call them an inconvenient burden.

Here’s a thought. Get behind early sex education, free and abundant birth control, and plenty of low cost child care.

Here’s real courage and generosity. They’re going to get slammed for this, but they’re doing it anyway because it’s right.

I’m declaring bullshit on that, there is no way a modern structure of that size doesn’t have a kitchen. I have never been in any church in my 38 years of life without kitchen facilities regardless of when it was built! For example, the church my maternal great-grandparent’s attended has a kitchen and this was a…

I didn’t even think about the 20 of 40k volunteering. Isn’t the whole point of religion and community the BEING THERE when someone needs you. I’m helping a friend from my religious community right now through a difficult time and it’s been a fucking shitshow, but I keep telling my husband, if you can’t be there for…

It would be one thing if the authorities had issued any kind of statement saying that they told him not to open, or something like that. And even then he should have been organizing something somewhere. But yeah, this just does not pass the sniff test.

It used to be a sports arena and there’s no kitchen of any kind? Not buying it.

I once worked at a company that did direct accounting business with Osteen and family. No, he does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. This man is a charaltan and a fucking crusty bit of smegma. 

For an organization that takes in $70+ million a year in revenue and seems very adept at PR and marketing themselves all over the world they are shockingly tone deaf when it came to handling this. I didn’t expect him to actually care about displaced people but I thought he was shrewd enough to recognize a good PR…

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.

That money is for evangalizing, not helping people.

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…

Even the podunkiest backcountry churches I’ve been to have kitchens. I mean, that’s like, why people go to church. Spaghetti dinner on Wednesday. It’s right there in the Bible, cmon.