Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen's mom, Dolores 'Dodie' Osteen, dies at 91
She was an authority in the megachurch business in her own right. In fact she and her husband started the megachurch business in 1959 only for the business to get skyrocketed once their son took over in 1999:
The evangelist took over the church after his father and the church's founder, John Osteen, died in 1999. From there, the church skyrocketed in attendance from about 5,000 people per week to as of recently nearly 45,000 weekly attendees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...472381007/
She was an authority in the megachurch business in her own right. In fact she and her husband started the megachurch business in 1959 only for the business to get skyrocketed once their son took over in 1999:
The evangelist took over the church after his father and the church's founder, John Osteen, died in 1999. From there, the church skyrocketed in attendance from about 5,000 people per week to as of recently nearly 45,000 weekly attendees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...472381007/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
