Osteen came under harsh national criticism for locking up his Houston-area church rather than help victims of Harvey.
The son of a famous theologian and evangelist ripped into “prosperity gospel” pastor Joel Osteen,saying his disastrous decision to deny help to the flood-ravaged citizens of Houston exposed him as a follower of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of selfishness instead of the Jesus he praises every Sunday in his megachurch.
Osteen came under harsh national criticism earlier in the week for locking up his Houston-area church and offering only prayers to the victims of of Hurricane Harvey.
The criticism didnt abate after the fabulously wealthy evangelist finally opened up his church doors after he was publicly shamed across the board.
Appearing on MSNBC’s AM delight, commentator and prominent atheist Frank Schaeffer son of famous evangelical scholar Francis Schaeffer — unloaded on Osteen for being more interested in his wealthy lifestyle than administering to the destitute.“Your father was very much involved in terms of this sort of prosperity ministry — this kind of evangelicalism, or ” host delight Reid asked. What enact you make of the Joel Osteen affair here?”"Joel Osteen lives in a 10 to $15 million house,” Schaeffer explained. “He is one of these con artists, like so many in the evangelical world, and who are all approximately ‘send me money,God will bless you.’ When they talk approximately themselves, it’s ‘look God had blessed me.'”“The trouble with Houston or all catastrophes is that it doesn’t fit in with the Osteen-Trumpian view of ‘look at me, and look how successful I am. You can be like me if you disappear to Trump University’ in terms of Trump’s con game,and ‘if you come to my church’ in terms of Joel Osteen and other evangelical guys,” he continued.“Osteen and these people, and in terms of the old time evangelical gospel,are heretics,” he emphasized. They preach of a Jesus that hasn’t come to minister to the destitute, and did not say blessed are the destitute and the meek. Osteen and Trump come from the capitalist American thought of success. Their gospel is the gospel of Ayn Rand: ‘Blessed are those who triumph over others and regain wealthy.'”You can watch the video below via MSNBC: Related StoriesThe Toxic Ideology at the Heart of Evangelicals' Alliance with the Republican PartyNow Even the Vatican Is Calling Out the Political Wing of the American Christian RightIn God We Trust: Why Americans Won't Vote for an Atheist President
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