Fr. Joel Osteen is Protestant Christian?

[questfortruth]

https://www.youtube.com/user/lakewoodchurch

All non-denominational Christian organizations and non-denominational Christian preachers and bloggers are Protestants who have come to deny their Protestantism. This is Protestantism, but Protestantism in self-negation.

Atheism is theism in self-negation.

In both cases it is Nihilism: self-negation, zero.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Osteen is a con man.

His followers are not sheep, but cattle to be milked.

Weither he is Protestant is anybodys guess.

I doubt he is even religious, other than a facade of being religious.

 

[The Hammer]

Huh?

 

[exchemist]

Osteen - not "Fr." Osteen, please note - seems to be an American Protestant televangelist, who failed to graduate from Anal Roberts University but is now worth $50m. Joel Osteen - Wikipedia

His interpretation of Christianity seems to be somewhat less bigoted and narrow-minded than that of the previous generation of televangelists, but he appears to go in for the "prosperity gospel" schtick, which looks very much like a way to sucker poor people into wasting their money supporting his church, in the hope that it will make them wealthier.

 

[mangalavara]

All non-denominational Christian organizations and non-denominational Christian preachers and bloggers are Protestants who have come to deny their Protestantism.

From my perspective, non-denominational Christian congregations, which are practically Baptist, are not so much Protestant but Protestant-derived. Were it not for Protestantism, by which I mean Lutheranism, Reformed, Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, and Methodism, there would not be the non-denominational Christian movement that we see today.

I doubt he is even religious, other than a facade of being religious.

Looking at the covers of his books, I think you are right to doubt Osteen is religious.

supporting his church, in the hope that it will make them wealthier.

Wait... supporting his church can make me wealthier?? I'll write him a check first thing in the morning!