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On 30 September 2016, the Babylon Bee web site published an article reporting that televangelist pastor Joel Osteen of Houston's Lakewood Church had only recently learned of (and was traumatized by) the circumstances of Jesus' death: The Babylon Bee article was clearly satirizing Osteen's embrace of the prosperity gospel over a more scripture-based approach to faith. A passage on Osteen's blog provides an example of the faith-based advice for which the pastor is known: Although the Babylon Bee piece wasn't very plausible in a literal sense, it managed to confuse some readers who are familiar with Osteen only in passing. But even among that subset of the audience, those who scrolled down to the bottom of the article might have spotted a disclaimer displayed across the Babylon Bee web site identifying its content as satirical in nature: Although Babylon Bee 's output is typically recognized as satirical by readers, the Joel Osteen crucifixion article wasn't the first such piece be mistaken for real news. Other similar works that have befuddled readers include reports that imprisoned abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was a Democratic National Convention (DNC) speaker, the Elevation Church had introduced a baptismal waterslide, and Osteen had apologized for using the name Jesus in a sermon.
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