Prosperity Gospel
The parable of the talents is famous, and it has the televangelists to thank for it. It goes like this: a master gave some money to three of his servants. Two of them invested and grew the funds; one buried the money out of fear of losing it. "As for this worthless slave," the master said, "throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Send in the prosperity preachers. God wants you to be rich, they say. What they don't tell you is, well, the pulpit calls first dibs on the cash. Joel Osteen recently told the Huffington Post that he doesn't like to be called a "prosperity preacher." But as the video above shows, not every pastor is so bashful.
