Peeking Through the Window - Lutheran Animal Farm

Orwell's Animal Farm is an allegorical satire of Stalinism, and the book describes other totalitarian regimes as well - the ELS, WELS, ELCA, and the micro-mini sects.

Readers may remember the climax of the book, where a farm animal peeks through the window and cannot distinguish the farm animals from the people who have been declared the enemy.

I call one Lutheran pastor Snowball because he was driven away by the WELS Stalinists and pilloried for leaving WELS.

Back to the main point - the various Lutheran sects run each other down while working with one another. ELCA represents the evil human population in the book. Sermons and resolutions address ELCA's apostasy. The typical WELS members and pastors think ELCA is profoundly inferior to WELS. They would be shocked at how much WELS works with ELCA on religious projects and then lies about it.

The apostate leaders in each synod look out for one another, defend one another, and promote one another into positions of influence. They necessarily look up to ELCA as the ideal in apostasy. That is how ELCA pulls Missouri, WELS, and the rest down along its trajectory.

What do the Big Four have in common?
1. They attend Fuller Seminary together.
2. They promote Church Growth together.
3. They favor women's ordination, with varying degrees of advocacy.
4. They want Roman Catholic leaders to teach them.
5. They work on religious projects together.