I knew it was only a matter of time before the facade of Joel Osteen’s prosperity gospel would begin to crumble. It’s clear to me that he’s all sizzle and no steak. At some point, all the sugary sweet, “Jesus wants you to be rich and happy,” talk was going to come back to bite him. From Barbara Ehrenreich’s blog:

In the theology of Christian positive thinking, “everything happens for a reason.” The Osteens may conclude that the divine intention was to prod them into to emulating Joyce Meyers and Creflo Dollar by investing in a private jet. But there’s another possible message from on high: that this brand of Christianity fosters a distinctly un-Christian narcissism.