Benny Hinn v. Joel Osteen

This is interesting because both are highly acclaimed by many, and both have airtime on the Evangelical television networks.

I'm not a fan of either Hinn or Osteen, but I particularly dislike Osteen's Christianity Lite message. He sounds more like a self-help guru than anything else. Hinn is wrong on many things but at least he's not as saccharine as Osteen.



Paul Washer, like many Southern Baptists, isn't friendly towards Catholicism (anti-Catholicism is quite a tradition among them) but he's quite right about preachers like Hinn and Osteen in the video below:



Actually, I think the old-time protestant anti-Catholicism was better - at least those days they had firm principles (anti-Catholicism being a major one). Having principles means that they would be interested in serious discussion and debate over the issues, over theology, history, scripture. And honest ones would do what Tim Staples or Scott Hahn eventually ended up doing.


For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths."

- 2 Timothy 4:3-4