Someone who isn’t exactly a fan of televangelist Joel Osteen constructed a website proclaiming that Osteen was “leaving the Christian faith.” The elaborate site comes complete with a press release, “CNN” screen shots, as well as a “special message from Pastor Joel.”
Good grief, with the D&B Credibility Corps badge at the bottom, how could this site possibly be inaccurate?
Well, it is.
On Monday, a website posing as Osteen’s official webpage unveiled a ” special announcement,” claiming the pastor of the Lakewood Church in Texas was leaving the Christian faith and bashed the Bible for being a “fallible, flawed, highly inconsistent history book.”
Osteen’s reaction? He finds it “mildly amusing.”
“You know, I’m really not angry. I don’t feel like a victim,” Osteen said. “I feel too blessed, that life is too short to let things like this get you down.”
I’ve never been an Osteen fan, but the guy kinda went up a notch in my book. Classy response, eh?
“You can’t stop everything from happening, but you can choose to say, ‘God, it’s in your hands’. I’m going to move forward. I’m going stay full of joy and I’m going enjoy this day,” Osteen told ABC News.
While the leader of the 45,000 member church is adopting a forgiving attitude, he did not rule out taking some sort of legal action.
Legal action? Hmmmmm. I’ll hold off the whole “notch” thing until I see what kind of “legal action” he’s talking about.
