I Don't Trust Smiley People

I don't trust people who are happy all the time. They are either living in denial or about to get some serious pleasure out of doing something sinister. There is only one job suitable for a man as smily as Joel Osteen and it isn't preaching......he should be greeting people at Walmart.


He  appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight this week and declared that homosexuality is a sin. This is the man who doesn't like to talk about sin. He prefers talking about prosperity. He acts as if God is some giant slot machine. Of course you are more likely to hit the jackpot if you read one of his books. According to 60 Minutes he doesn't even like to talk about Jesus that often or even God. He probably doesn't need the competition. They're best seller has been flying off the shelves for centuries.  


But when it comes to gay bashing ole' Joel is right up there with the big boys. He told Piers Morgan this week he thought homosexuality was a sin. The Bible told him so although earlier in the broadcast he had made it clear he picks and chooses which scriptures to adhere to (a practice I can't say I am opposed to). Of course he followed this right up with the standard he has nothing against homosexuals line. They do buy books after all. And some of them don't have any more sense than to attend one of his so called church services. 


The scriptures he was eschewing were the  passages in the Bible that warm people not to build up wealth on earth.  Apparently he was too busy reading the parts of Leviticus he enjoyed. God wants us to prosper he claimed. I am sure God wants us to use up way more of the earth's resources than we are entitled to as well. 

I bet he doesn't like the scripture that states that "Where two or three are gathered, there I will be also," either since his "church" holds 18.000. If only two or three people showed up he wouldn't need those big screens he is so fond of.


Later in the week he declared he felt traditional worship was dead and that growing churches were going contemporary. Sorry Joel, what you are leading is NOT worship. Worship isn't about you or just feeling good. 


I don't think we should go back to the Puritan age of Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God but Joel seems to be serving up nothing but dessert at his services  I like sugar as much as any one but  even I am ready for a real dinner after breakfasting on Hershey Bars and lunching on  a couple of pudding cups. You have to have some meat and potatoes once in a while. Looks like Joel could use a little meat on his bones come to think about it. 

Given his modern approach to  worship it doesn't really make sense for Joel to hold these archaic views on homosexuality. I'm not making any claims but I do know that sometimes people  have their own reasons for "protesting too much" and Joel and his pretty little clingy blonde wife remind me of an infamous governor and his spouse. He may be completely straight but I won't be surprised if he ever comes out.