Morford hits another one
Who Loves Creepy Megachurches? / Stadium crowds, thousands of rabid devotees, all chugging Jesus like Kool-Aid. Should you be afraid?
"Fat self-righteous playground thug no one likes" is my new favorite term.
Note the gleam, the sheen, the hair product, the creepy I-can't-believe-you're-all-falling-for-my-shtick grin splattered all over televangelist and best-selling author Joel Osteen and his not-quite-human wife, Victoria, as they celebrate the grand opening of the new home for the Lakewood Church, formerly the Compaq Center. I mean, come *on* people. Didn't anyone see "V" back in the '80s? Can't you tell the scary lizard race from the Fifth Dimension when you see them? Look more closely. Look at those eyes. Scaly!
...especially now, especially when the country's identity is imploding and moral codes are deliciously evolving and we are no longer the gleaming righteous superpower we always thought we were and instead are much more the fat self-righteous playground thug no one likes.
"Fat self-righteous playground thug no one likes" is my new favorite term.
posted by bda at 11:15 AM
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This is a weird tidbit: Osteen met his wife at this jewelry shop where she worked. He walked up to the counter and told her that he was going to marry her. And they dated for a couple of months and got married.
Also wierd, Osteen is a second generation pastor at that church. His dad used to be the pastor. His "ministry" is a strange mix of evangelical conservative Christianity and new-age self-help mysticism. "Ask God for the life you want right now and you will get it because God wants to give you your heart's desires. Also, be happy with what you have." He's teaching to Buddism to suberbanites in mercedes.
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