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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gosh, a lot of angry and nasty posts here.  Verily, if you watched Osteen or read any of his books, at least you'd be in a gentler mood, i.e., improved as a person.  Is he right about every single thing?  Only God knows.  But I'd rather read his work and practice gratitude and kindness than read people's verbal diarrhea and feel anger.

As the Bible says, judge a tree by its fruit.[/quote]

He may be kind, but he’s not a Bibically based pastor.

He makes millions off of his followers. He takes their money and makes them feel good.

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Can you prove that with Bible verses?[/quote]

He graduated from Humble High School, a public high school in the city of Humble, Texas, in 1981,[4] and attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he studied radio and television communications but did not graduate; he did not receive a degree from a divinity school.[5][6]

The Osteen family attended Easter breakfast hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House in 2010.[16]

Osteen's first book, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, was released in October 2004, and reached the number 1 position on The New York Times Best Seller list.[27]

He released his second book, titled Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day, in October 2007. It also topped The New York Times Best Seller list[28] and had a first printing of three million copies.[29] Osteen has said that the book focuses more on relationships and not getting stuck where we are in life.[30]

Osteen lives with his family in a 17,000 square-foot mansion in River Oaks, with an estimated value of $10.5 million.[32] Osteen says that as senior pastor, he draws no salary from the church, which has an annual budget of $70 million,[33] and that he instead relies on income from book sales.[34]

Osteen's sermons and writings are sometimes criticized for promoting prosperity theology, or the prosperity gospel, a belief that the reward of material gain is the will of God for all pious Christians.[35][41][43][44][45][46]

On October 14, 2007, 60 Minutes ran a 12-minute segment on Osteen, titled "Joel Osteen Answers His Critics", during which Reformed theologian Michael Horton told CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts that Osteen's message is heresy. Horton stated that the problem with Osteen's message is that it makes religion about us instead of about God.[47]

Osteen is estimated to have a net worth of over $50 million, with his church taking in $43 million a year in collections.[48]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Osteen

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zero Bible verses[/quote]

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