It gives me no joy to defend Joel Osteen on any matter, but truth is truth and right is right. You wouldn't think piling on a public figure would be something that could take hold when the flood waters are still rising and people need to be rescued. But this is America 2017, and this is what we do.
Osteen is an easy target for the simple reason that almost everyone on all sides can find a reason to dislike him. Many Christians don't like him because what he preaches isn't, uh, the Gospel. We'll get to that. Non-Christians don't like him because he self-identifies as a Christian, and he's rich, and he leads a megachurch, and he's everything they imagine the smarmy cartoonish celebrity pastor to be.
