When terrible theology makes good Christians
It was the strangest thing.
I was heaving my way through a book by Creflo A. Dollar, one of the most potent purveyors of prosperity preaching in the United States. Like Joel Osteen, he's an evangelist for the health-and-wealth Jesus, the Jesus who gets you ahead and gets you rich. Also like Joel Osteen, he's managed to get rich as Croesus from the many blessings he receives from his teeming throng of congregants and the folks who buy his stuff.
That's multiple Rolls-Royces, multiple mansion, private jet rich. CEO rich. Oligarch rich.