Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Religious Left and Thrivent Love Abortion





Here is one article on the religious Left supporting abortion.

As Brett Meyer pointed out, Thrivent gives matching money (from your policies) to Planned Parenthood, a major provider of abortions across America.

http://www.cogforlife.org/ppsupporters.htm

Thrivent gave first place to an essay from a Lutheran child who wrote that his retarded brother should have been aborted.

Nevertheless, Thrivent continues to be untouchable in Lutheran circles. When they were separate, AAL and LB used to compete to see who could give ELCA the most money. Both parts of Thrivent gave lavishly to ELCA-LCMS-WELS projects, joint evangelism and joint worship programs. Those were heady, frothy days under Mischke and Gurgle.

Here is another connection, although I cannot verify it at the moment. McGavran suggested congregations work with Planned Parenthood. McGavran, as most know, founded the Church Growth Movement. His incredibly dull book became the "Bible" for CG, and yet that "Bible" suggested jumping on the Planned Parenthood bandwagon.

Margaret Sanger, the Planned Parenthood pioneer, spoke before the KKK because they liked her ideas about getting rid of Black babies. Jesse Jackson used to be pro-life, because he was the illegitimate child of the next-door neighbor. Jesse changed his tune when he ran for president. One LCA pastor of a Black church said, "We may have more abortions than the average, but my members still know it is wrong." Thrivent does not know that much.

Margaret Sanger archives.

I served several churches that did not engage in Lutheran insurance commercialism to support their budget. They thought AAL and LB were tacky for demanding worship bulletin recognition for every pittance handed over. We survived without it.

PS - Not money, but the love of money is the root of all evil. KJV 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The pastoral leaders blind themselves with money -- the root of all evil.

Brett Meyer said...

Donald McGavran, Understanding Church Growth
"The other good and urgent things to do, far from contradicting this thesis, reinforceit. The many tasks that lie at hand should be done - there can be no two opinons about that. Preaching good sermons, teaching illiterates to read, working at planned parenthood or the world's food supply, administering churches skillfully, applying Christainity to all of life, using mass media, and hundreds of other activities are not sinful. They are good. Some are urgent." Page 32
http://books.google.com/books?id=nKZMOR5QTU4C&lpg=PA32&ots=OGzSOvUk-6&dq=donald%20McGavran%20planned%20parenthood&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=parenthood&f=false

JS said...

Does Thrivent still support PP? How can I go about finding out this sort of thing?

Anonymous said...

Now that the matching gifts are being eliminated hopefully that helps in breaking some of the ties with Thrivent.

Anonymous said...

In response to Brett,
Sorry you got taken by the prankster who used my name.
I read the link about the United Methodist Church lobbyist and their pro-abortion stance. Now I can honestly say that the WELS is pro-life. I was searching for my latest issue of Clearly Caring. This magazine is a testimony of our life "belongs to God". Church growth gurus, Schwan looters, and "busy" students aside, we can all agree that abortion is a sin. Pastor GJ's good friend, Bivens, has written fine articles on such topics. Yes, he attended Fuller. And yes, a source on Freddy's blog stated that some in th WLS faculty are leary of him.
My pastor preaches on the sin of abortion. Confessional or Synodical, I can say that these Christians are pro-life.

In Christ,
from WELS church lady

P.S. WELS has pregnancy councling centers and a Home for un-wed mothers(New Beginnings) For these fine programs to continue and stay scriptural, confessionals rather than shrinkers need to run these places.

Thanks again, WELS church lady

Brett Meyer said...

Donald McGavran, Understanding Church Growth
"The other good and urgent things to do, far from contradicting this thesis, reinforceit. The many tasks that lie at hand should be done - there can be no two opinons about that. Preaching good sermons, teaching illiterates to read, working at planned parenthood or the world's food supply, administering churches skillfully, applying Christainity to all of life, using mass media, and hundreds of other activities are not sinful. They are good. Some are urgent." Page 32
http://books.google.com/books?id=nKZMOR5QTU4C&lpg=PA32&ots=OGzSOvUk-6&dq=donald%20McGavran%20planned%20parenthood&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=parenthood&f=false

Anonymous said...

Just letting you know that even though Sanger spoke to the KKK and that is well documented in her autobiography - all those PICS with her and the KKK are frauds- be careful. Also- I wanted to let you know about a powerful film about Sanger, Planned Parenthood and their eugenic agenda called: maafa21. Short clip here: www.maafa21.com