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Today’s “Fleece-Flocker” Award Winner is Pastor Joel Osteen of Houston
Pastor Joel Osteen is a televangelist, author and senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston Texas. Pastor Joe’s TV show has a weekly following of over seven million weekly viewers and a yearly take of over $70 million a year.
Pastor Joel is an accomplished thespian (actor) who promotes a scam known as “prosperity theology.” Joel’s sermons and writings put forth the sham belief to his followers that wealth and power are rewards for pious Christians. Clearly, Pastor Joel missed his calling as a standup comedian.
To be fair to Pastor Joel, he’s not the only Elmer Gantry Wannabee involved in selling phony prosperity snake oil to his followers. Some of Pastor Joel’s prime competitors in the snake oil field are, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, and Kenneth Hagin just to mention a few.
As you’ll see in the tables below Pastor Joel and his wife Victoria have made out quite well financially from bilking their followers (aka, victims) by selling their books for ten times as much as they cost at Amazon.com. The markups by Joel and Victoria are current as of July 25, 2011.
And lastly, as you'll see, Joel is an ambidextrous Fleece-Flocker in that he finds it acceptable to hose Latinos who fall prey to his snake oil pitch.
Table 1 – Victoria Osteen Fleecing the Flock
Table 2 – Pastor Joel Osteen Fleecing the Flock
Congrats Rev. Lucado; keep up the good work! We should let everyone know of your amazing record as a Fleece-Flocker; you are far too humble.
Table 1 – Victoria Osteen Fleecing the Flock
Table 2 – Pastor Joel Osteen Fleecing the Flock
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