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"We don't understand why all these things happened, but we know God's in control," Osteen said.

"We're going to continue to to move forward. There are forces of evil, but the forces that are for us, the forces of God, are stronger than that," he continued. "So we're going to keep going strong and just, you know, doing what God's called us to do, lift people up and give hope to the world again."

Wtf kind of god do you believe in?

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[–] Unlocalhost 93 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One that doesn't reach out to the homeless living next to his church

One that locks his doors while people in his city are dying of historic floods

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he just helped the poor and destitute, he would be interfering with God's plan for them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

So it is written.

[–] Unlocalhost 9 points 1 year ago

Suplyside Jesus 14:52

[–] homesweethomeMrL 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The woman was shot down by off duty law enforcement. Well yeah, one should always pack heat, specially in gods house /s

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"We don't understand why all these things happened, but we know God's in control," Osteen said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

The problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.[1][2][3]

The problem of evil is generally formulated in two forms: the logical problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil. The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil,[2][9] while the evidential form tries to show that given the evil in the world, it is improbable that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and a wholly good god.[3] The problem of evil has been extended to non-human life forms, to include suffering of non-human animal species from natural evils and human cruelty against them.[10]

[–] dipshit 21 points 1 year ago

The lord works in mysterious ways, isn’t that right, joel?

[–] Son_of_dad 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When something good happens, you're supposed to praise god. Why when something horrible happens, you're supposed to praise god for "testing" you. So god is essentially a child with a magnifying lense, burning ants. I have more morality than this god.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Don't let the devil steal your joy"

- Joel Osteen, speaker who makes money talking up a message of positivity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And she didn't! It's just that her joy was opening fire inside Lakewood Church with a child in tow.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Was the child even her own kin or some kid she kidnapped?!?!

[–] Etterra 8 points 1 year ago

Too bad Osteen survived. That guy's a piece of work.

[–] Gazumi 2 points 1 year ago

Internal terrorism, that neither mentions terrorism or the shooters religion.

[–] Rapidcreek -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“Free Palestine” written on her weapon...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Osteen have a history of supporting colonialism? I know a lot of evangelicals want Israel to usher in the apocalypse.

[–] raynethackery 4 points 1 year ago

Have to drive them out of Jerusalem as well, so they can build the third temple. Jesus can't return until it is built.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Hmm not the worst place to open fire