Joel Osteen closes church during hurrican. He seems nice.

[Swede]

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/houston-needs-you-social-media-rains-scorn-on-joel-osteen-for-closing-megachurch-after-hurricane/

[B2G]

1. Is this facility even in a suitable area to act as a shelter?

Seems doubtful.

"A photo posted early Sunday morning showed heavy flooding about a block away from Lakewood Church".

[Orrex]

3. No doubt he'll call upon his flock to build him a new multi-million dollar mega church

[oberliner]

9. No it's not

Raw Story is ridiculous.

[Phoenix61]

2. He's just another prosperity preacher

Their message is pretty much the same, "send me your money so I can be prosperous." Nice gig if you're cool with ripping people off.

[lpbk2713]

6. Touch the teevee screen and I'll heal you, Brothers and Sisters.

If you don't get healed it's because you didn't send in enough money.

[7wo7rees]

4. Joel's "worship" mega-center....

"10 years ago: Lakewood Church, Joel Osteen move into Houston's Compaq Center"
Craig Hlavaty | on July 14, 2015

This week in 2005 the Lakewood Church congregation moved into the building formerly known as the Compaq Center and before that, The Summit, the venue where Houston saw some of the best rock concerts to ever hit the city.

Houston sports fans will of course always have fuzzy warm memories of the building because the Houston Rockets happened to win two NBA Championships under that very roof.

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After $95 million in renovations and much political wrangling, the church moved into its new 16,000-seat home on July 16, 2005, a church home complete with miles of carpet and indoor waterfalls.

Joel and Victoria Osteen lead the Lakewood congregation, the largest in the United States with more than 40,000 in attendance each week, with millions watching the video feed around the world in 100 countries. The Osteen brand grew exponentially with the move into the cavernous digs.

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/10-years-ago-Lakewood-Church-Joel-Osteen-move-into-6383884.php

Lots of pics at link and rest of story....
Now way is Joel going to open this place up to "refugees".
If he were he would already have done so.

[Iggo]

5. Oh, but churches do so much good!

[MineralMan]

7. No room in his inn for refugees. No sirree, bob.

[oberliner]

8. The church is completely inaccessible due to the flooding

:large

[LittleBlue]

10. Fake news then

The more pressing issue is discovering why Raw Story have an axe to grind with Joel Osteen.

[B2G]

11. I can't believe anyone takes Raw Story seriously.

About anything.

[democratisphere]

12. Osteen I believe is a decent person.

I'm sure his congregation and organization will do a lot of good work for the Houston area and Texas going forward. Looks like the church is not accessable at this time and they may have incurred a lot of water damage. This is no time to adopt fox destruction behavior.