Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen at Dodger Stadium in April 2010. (Richard Vogel/Associated Press)Twitter is loathing Houston’s mega-watt-smile, mega-pastor Joel Osteen right now. Joel Osteen won't open his church that holds 16,000 to hurricane victims because it only provides shelter from taxes. Lakewood Church, a 606,000-square-foot megachurch in Houston where Joel Osteen preaches, is being used as a shelter from the flood. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)But there are three main reasons why long after this controversy passes, Joel Osteen will still be the preacher America loves to hate — and perhaps for Christians more than others.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2017 23:01 UTC