George Taylor: "You Maniacs! You blew it up!"
Poor George Taylor got back home to Earth, only to find that the nuclear holocaust had buried the Statue of Liberty.
Earthlings today, especially Baby Boomers, are busy with their demolition efforts. They dismantled the Lutheran Church years ago. Now synodical leaders can pretend to be conservative while running off to Fuller Seminary and promoting gay lib. According to Fuller alumnus Frosty Bivens, one should not suggest that a homosexual orientation is wrong. However, he does think it is a lie to tell the truth about his Church Growth education. As Luther opined, "When right is wrong and wrong is right, nothing can help anymore."
The California Supreme Court decision (4 to 3) to bless homosexual marriage is one more non-surprise in a long series of ethical retreats initiated by the churches of America. Like their mainline counterparts, the conservative synods paved the way for the California decision decades ago when they abandoned sound doctrine for the fads of the day.
The problem does not center on the issue of the moment, but the foundation for making decisions. Our country was founded on the principles of natural law, that right and wrong are derived from divine Creation. Once that concept was removed from Christianity and Judaism, anything could be decided. The turning point was not Roe versus Wade, but much earlier, when evolution became the accepted stance of most denominations.
Fuller Seminary succeeded in attracting all synod leaders (ELCA, ELS, WELS, LCMS) precisely because those synods were already apostate. The Fuller education drive began in the 1970s. No one really objected at the time. Dr. Robert Preus and the Concordia, Ft. Wayne faculty endorsed Church Growth principles. Preus offered a Church Growth degree at The Fort. Kincaid Smith said his Ft. Wayne D.Min. was all Church Growth.
When there was some chance to follow through and fight Church Growth ecumemnism along doctrinal lines, the conservative Lutheran pastors and laity ducked into their rabbit warrens and shivered, hoping to escape synodical wrath. However, the pan-Lutheran Church Growth Mafia was not so passive. They hammered every critic until he was declared legally dead. Werning, Hunter, Valleskey, Olson, Koenig, Tiefel 1, Tiefel 2, Bivens, Oelhaven, Sweet, and Adrian were One in the Spirit, One in the Lord.
Stay tuned for "Tch tch" sermons this Sunday. Woe is us. The California court decision shows how bad things are. Thank God we are so conservative. We are so conservative we never admit having pastors who have died of AIDS. Etc. Etc.
