Comments on: A Preacher’s Credo: Eliminate the Negative, Accentuate Prosperity http://sodsbrood.com/junk/2006/03/30/a-preachers-credo-eliminate-the-negative-accentuate-prosperity/ The community blog portal for sodsbrood.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:33:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Matthew http://sodsbrood.com/junk/2006/03/30/a-preachers-credo-eliminate-the-negative-accentuate-prosperity/#comment-111 Matthew Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:51:50 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/junk/2006/03/30/a-preachers-credo-eliminate-the-negative-accentuate-prosperity/#comment-111 Obviously the "Prosperity Gospel" has worked for Osteen. He's a very rich and powerful man. He's no <a href="http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j055sdsimeon1-5.htm" rel="nofollow">Simon Stylites</a>, that's for sure. It's interesting to look back at the Reformation and how one of the criticisms of the Catholic church was of its wealth and the opulence of the Popes (not to mention their hypocrisy). Within the Evangelical church, there is a similar phenomenon in which a number of wealthy, hypocritical "Popes" bilk their congregation of millions of dollars by selling them the snake oil of prosperity through faith in God. Obviously the “Prosperity Gospel” has worked for Osteen. He’s a very rich and powerful man. He’s no Simon Stylites, that’s for sure.

It’s interesting to look back at the Reformation and how one of the criticisms of the Catholic church was of its wealth and the opulence of the Popes (not to mention their hypocrisy). Within the Evangelical church, there is a similar phenomenon in which a number of wealthy, hypocritical “Popes” bilk their congregation of millions of dollars by selling them the snake oil of prosperity through faith in God.

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