Fuller Fraud Resembles Global Warming Statistics

I joined WELS and all I got was this crummy sweatshirt.

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Hi Dr. Jackson,

Did you notice the similarity between ClimateGate and Church GrowthGate? Turns out the climatologists were massaging the numbers, and adding in false data, while the Church Growth-ologists touted bigger, better attended mall-like churches. Yet, over time they finally had to admit that they hardly converted anyone to Christianity, and once the ready supply of sheep to sheep-steal from the long-established alphabet soup of denominations became a trickle, their growth stagnated and in many cases reversed. Hence, the church growthers are rightly called church shrinkers.

I have noticed.

Here is the latest from Australia, and their version of the fraudulent Cap and Trade Double Energy Costs Tax. American Spectator has this.

For those who have missed the scientific scandal of all time - the global warming scientists have been exposed in England and New Zealand for faking data while blackballing any scientist with legitimate complaints about their methods and "facts." I knew that man-made global warming was invented to generate millions for "research" and billions for "carbon credits." Wowee - those carbon credits are just like those YoVille gifts people buy with real money on Facebook. Yes, people are paying for pixels with YoVille, so they should love buying carbon credits for a non-existing problem.

Back to the main theme - the Church Shrinkers have been running their Ponzi scheme for decades. The worse they do, the more they want to claim for themselves. St. Paul in German Village (Columbus, Ohio) had a variety of Shrinkers: Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, Roger Zehms, Bob Schumann, and Mike Nitz. Schumann envisioned 8,000 communicants and a world-famous parking valet ministry. (If you think any of my posts are humorous, just imagine the how much material I have to work with. I could do three blogs on Columbus alone.)

Mrs. Ichabod, upon hearing about this Schumann vision thing, asked at the time, "What if Marc Schroeder (now LCMS) has the same plan? Where will they get all these communicants?" Schumann is a Jungkuntz relative, and I trace the whole CG gang in WELS to Jungkuntz teaching at Northwestern College. Zehms, choking up, called Jungkuntz the best teacher he ever had. Zehms is now a member at St. Marcus, Milwaukee.

Where was I? What did CG do for St. Paul in German Village? It should be its own denomination by now, but the congregation did not prosper under the tutelage of so many gurus.

The comparisons are so obvious. The globaloney experts worked overtime to silence anyone who doubted their man-made global warming scare tactics.

WELS, Missouri, the Little Sect on the Prairie, ELCA, and the CLC (sic) have all pursued training in CG while idolizing the Fuller apostates. These thugs have worked together secretly, knowing each other's identity, yet denying their study at Fuller, their support of cheesey Reformed doctrine, and their looting of synod funds for their own destructive projects.

Do they work together to suppress dissent from their Church Shrinkerage? I have given many examples in the past. The clergy are afraid of their wrath. Like the ongoing GA hazing at Mequon, the denials work because so many participate in lying.

Calling me a liar, Valleskey and Bivens have denied going to Fuller Seminary and yet both have admitted it. Waldo Werning admitted his Fuller study to me, denied it later, and flew into a rage when I pointed out that I wrote down his admission on that day in my Day-Timer. I made it a habit to take notes when Shrinkers talked because they consistently denied ever saying what I wrote down. Later, Werning was proud to get a blue ribbon or Happy Meal or some other award from Fuller for selling their product so vigorously. That suggests he did go there.

Rich Krause defended Larry Olson (DMin, Fuller), without mentioning that he (as circuit pastor and conference chairman!) was doing an unionistic DMin with Larry Oh! as his supervisor. Rich and Larry call themselves "Dr." now - for the equivalent of a very weak STM degree.

All the synods have promoted and defended those men who have done their best to destroy Lutheran doctrine. Just as the scientists are against honest science, these Shrinkers are against their own doctrine. Fuller has trained men and women to subvert and undermine the confessions of all denominations - not just Lutherans. They are united by their disbelief in the Word - and proud of it. Our Staph Infection (Larry Oh!) bragged that more Lutherans went to Fuller than to synodical schools.

The Shrinkers also have their fake statistics. They highlight a few congregations where someone has succeeded in being non-Lutheran, vaguely Christian, and very entertaining - yielding a bumper crop of transfers from other congregations. Long ago, Reuel Schulz' man, C. Ponzi Wagner, admitted that "CG principles do not work." Has that fact--from their top defrauder--affected their ardor? Not at all.

I found a graphic in the WELS Perish Services presentation. The figures were for a "turnaround church," before and after. Very impressive - and faked. It showed what could happen. What a joke. When someone else was using WELS statistics, he got a call from Gurgle himself, asking where the information came from. (Implied accusation - you working with Name Him Not.) He answered, "From the WELS statistical report." Astonishing that all these statistics experts never stopped to analyze their own.

Several computers ago, I devised actual Excel graphs showing how WELS had started shrinking under CG, with The Love Shack staff growing each year. WELS supplied the statistics from their annual "Book of Sins." The Shrinkers strangled the schools, promoting their expensive programs and hiring additional buddies to lobby for more programs and hire more parasites at 2929. The trend lines were obvious - membership steadily downward, staff hires steadily upward, schools gradually defunded. And yet the conventions kept voting for these anti-Lutheran clowns.

Gurgle left office, suddenly, when the money gaps became too obvious to be explained or blamed away.

The Global Warming fanatics are already pushing their talking points. Ed Begley went Werning on Fox, yelling "peer reviews" and shouting down the interviewer. There is no known serious reaction to the scandal so far. Blogs will help get the word past the watchful dragons of the mainstream media.

The Shrinkers are so deceptive that they deny CG exists, yet they have their own private club in WELS to promote CG - Church and Change, started with WELS money, with offshoots to promote more of the same. The Shrinkers are not volunteers working in their spare time. No, they are on the synod dole - mission counselors and parish assistants and seminary professors.

Church and Change has its own listserve, which I repost every so often - to their howls of dismay. They do not need their own magazine, because the submissive WELS members pay for FIC to be used as the Xerox room of Church and Change. The regular contributors to FIC are the founders and leaders of Church and Change:

1. Kissin' Jim Aderman
   
2. Fuller Bivens
   
3. Dom Perignon Patterson
   
4. Peter Pan-denominational
   
5. Paul Calvin Kelm
   
6. Randy Latte Hunter
   
7. James Mattek
   
8. David Figs-from-Thistles Valleskey
   
9. His Grace, Mark Jeske
   
10. Wayne--no CG in WELS--Mueller.

FIC somehow manages to publish gushing articles about the favored CG experiments of the moment. The Sausage Factory has been CG for decades now, with Mary Lou College preparing the students for Reformed doctrine and homoerotic film production. WLC is not exactly a confessional alternative, since Church and Change started at Ecole de Schwan, "Our Valpo". WLC is so confessional (from a Fuller perspective) that they got their new president from a non-WELS congregation, CrossWalk in Phoenix, plus two board members. Has anyone heard of a tiny, failing non-WELS congregation getting three people in leadership roles at the same college? They were even trying to get Jeff Gunn a gig at WLC, but that was nixed. Church and Change used to brag that Gunn's anti-Lutheran entertainment center was "blessed," so they featured him at their conferences. The only way people get at the truth is by sending information to Ichabod and seeing it published for commentary. Chicanery commentary is obscene, abusive, crude, insulting, and especially motivating for me. The canons of decency prevent me from publishing most of it, but the daily volume proves regularly albeit joyless reading of the facts. Science is supposed to rely on pure research and the facts, but that has been subverted by a well organized group of greedy, self-serving people. The same can be said for Lutherans. Everyone wanted to be handed a neat formula they could repeat while feeling good about themselves:

1. The pastor and congregation must want to grow.
   
2. God wants His church to grow. God needs massive amounts of money to make this happen. He is depending on you.
   
3. Numerical growth is good, by whatever means necessary--short of sin, and actual work, of course.
   
4. Cell groups are absolutely necessary for growth.
   
5. Pipe organs are bad, bad, and pit orchestras are good, good.
   
6. The liturgy is bad, bad, but bad dancing and lame drama are good, good.
   
7. Hymns hurt growth, but peppy songs help growth.
   
8. Creeds and sermons are bad - so are church buildings.
   
9. Movie theaters are way cool. Offer treats before and during, for belly-servers.
   
10. Ministers should dress like they are going to change the oil in their cars afterwards.
    

These strange new insights, recycled endlessly, have devastated the institutions they propose to save. Why is no one shocked, or laughing, or marching to headquarters with burning torches and waving pitchforks?

Jim Aderman asked, "Have you ever kissed a frog?"

Absurdity is no barrier to publishing in FIC.

Aderman helped found the Chicaneries and gets paid to promote CG in FIC. Neat.

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WELS really sowed the seeds of confusion when it conflated CG with exhortations to amend one’s own behavior to serve the needs of WELS. The dissonance with the Word of God alone was enough to drive away followers.

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GJ - The exhortations may have laid claim to helping Holy Mother Synod, but they betrayed a real hatred for Lutheran doctrine and worship. I will dedicate a new post to that reality.

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Climategate: the scandal spreads, the plot thickens, the shame deepens…

Wow! The scandal just gets juicier and juicier. Now it seems that the Kiwis may have been at it too – tinkering with raw data to make “Global Warming” look scarier than it really is. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That; Ian Wishart)

The alleged villains this time are the climate scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NiWA) – New Zealand’s answer to Britain’s Climate Research Unit. And to judge by this news alert by the Climate Science Coalition of NZ, both institutions share a similarly laissez-faire attitude to scientific accuracy.
Compare and contrast these two graphs and you’ll see .

This is the graph from NiWA’s website, showing mean annual temperature over New Zealand from 1853. Note the dotted straight line showing the upward trend. Worrying, isn’t it? Almost enough to make you fall in love your flickery, yellowy new eco-light bulbs, recycle your kids and commit yourself to a binding agreement at Copenhagen.

Now have a look at this analysis of the raw data taken from exactly the same temperature stations.

Can you see the difference? I can – and I know as little about science as Al Gore. But lets allow the experts at Climate Science Coalition of NZ to explain:

Straight away you can see there’s no slope—either up or down. The temperatures are remarkably constant way back to the 1850s. Of course, the temperature still varies from year to year, but the trend stays level—statistically insignificant at 0.06°C per century since 1850.

Putting these two graphs side by side, you can see huge differences. What is going on?

Why does NIWA’s graph show strong warming, but graphing their own raw data looks completely different? Their graph shows warming, but the actual temperature readings show none whatsoever!

Have the readings in the official NIWA graph been adjusted?

It is relatively easy to find out. We compared raw data for each station (from NIWA’s web site) with the adjusted official data, which we obtained from one of Dr Salinger’s colleagues.

Requests for this information from Dr Salinger himself over the years, by different scientists, have long gone unanswered, but now we might discover the truth.

Proof of man-made warming

What did we find? First, the station histories are unremarkable. There are no reasons for any large corrections. But we were astonished to find that strong adjustments have indeed been made.

About half the adjustments actually created a warming trend where none existed; the other half greatly exaggerated existing warming. All the adjustments increased or even created a warming trend, with only one (Dunedin) going the other way and slightly reducing the original trend.

The shocking truth is that the oldest readings have been cranked way down and later readings artificially lifted to give a false impression of warming, as documented below. There is nothing in the station histories to warrant these adjustments and to date Dr Salinger and NIWA have not revealed why they did this.

One station, Hokitika, had its early temperatures reduced by a huge 1.3°C, creating strong warming from a mild cooling, yet there’s no apparent reason for it.

We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man-made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2—it was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature. It’s a disgrace.

NIWA claim their official graph reveals a rising trend of 0.92ºC per century, which means (they claim) we warmed more than the rest of the globe, for according to the IPCC, global warming over the 20th century was only about 0.6°C.

NIWA has since issued a press release, denying it has manipulated any data. And claiming:

Warming over New Zealand through the past is unequivocal.

However, at his excellent site the Briefing Room Ian Wishart – author of Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming – points out the striking similarities with the CRU scandal.

Manipulation of raw data is at the heart of recent claims of corrupt scientific practice in climate science, with CRU’s Phil Jones recently claiming old temperature records collected by his organization were “destroyed” or “lost”, meaning researchers can now only access manipulated data.