Freddy Finkelstein: Luther Gave Us Classical Education

Freddy Finkelstein has left a new comment on your post "Huxleys, Darwin, Evolution, UNESCO":

This is an excellent high-level snippet, emphasizing the role of education in controlling a society. Because of poor education, most people have no idea of the ideological relationship between Hegel, Darwin and Marx, and thus also Lenin, Hitler, and other modern socialists. They have no idea of the connections between Huxley and Dewey, nor of their relationships to world financial icons, like the Rockefellers, nor of their financial support of Dewey's "Education Revolution" of the early 20th century, nor their consequent formation of the League of Nations, and later the United Nations. None of this is conspiracy theory, this is all open and celebrated history of philosophy and education.

What people fail to realize is that the Classical world, under the tutelage of Classical pedagogics, was a gift of Martin Luther to Western Civilization. Understanding that his Reformation was a Doctrinal Reformation, he knew that the only way the people could hold on to precious Scripture doctrine was if they had the education to do so. The people needed a system of universal education, and the Church was not organized or financially well-endowed enough to do it. The State had to do it. He tasked Melanchthon (Europe's pre-eminent Humanist at the time, second to Erasmus) and Johann Sturm (Europe's pre-eminent pedagogist at the time), with creating an education system that would equip the people to hold on to pure doctrine. Meanwhile, Luther shopped the idea around with the princes, emphasizing the benefit of an educated society to the State. They bought it, and the world was given the finest and most rigorous education system known in the West, even by today's standards. As a result, Europe saw unprecedented economic advancement and social mobility, and with it, the growth of individual liberty. The education system Luther gave us was Classical Education. This is the system adopted in America just after the Revolution, as our nation's leadership understood that universal education was vitally important to our success. This is the system that Dewey, with the aid of his globalist/socialist cohorts, overthrew a century ago, the benefits of which are fast disappearing as the generations who sat under such instruction are finally dying off, and their published works being lost and forgotten.

But there is hope. Classical Education is returning -- strong among the Reformed, and growing among Lutherans. Check out the Consortium of Classical and Lutheran Education. This is the direction Lutheran education must go, if Confessional Lutheranism is to survive at all, and if society is to be equipped with the intellectual horsepower necessary to preserve our liberty.

Freddy Finkelstein

Clueless in the MLC

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Queerty (2 months ago)

To what cultural aspersions do we owe the phenomenon of remaking the remakes of music videos? The Fire Island Pines boys, who created the Miley Cyrus send-up "Party In The F.I.P," receive their own homage with "Party In The MLC" fro...

Kyle Fax has left a new comment on your on your  on your post "More Puerile Behavior":

"The excuses for "Party in the MLC" were so flimsy that they deserved the gaydar graphic."

They deserved it? Wow. That's absolutely spectacular of you to say. Even two months later they apparently deserve to be mocked? You have no concept of the term constructive criticism. And really, is asking them to provide a public apology constructive criticism? Someone like you shouldn't be given such an honor if it is. It probably wouldn't satisfy your harsh tongue. You are a poor example to Christians everywhere, Reverend Jackson. Absolutely shameful.

P.S. to Brett Meyer: You're not funny.

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GJ - PPS to Kyle - you are!

I am glad everyone can see the WELS damage-control operation at work: humorless, thin-skinned, and caustic. Heaven forbid they would find anything wrong with their athletes prancing around on the Internet, getting the attention of Queerty and having their image above posted on Google Images.


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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Clueless in the MLC":

Here's a few reasons for MLC to post a retraction and clarifying statement concerning their confession on homosexuality. Then again it's currently a hate crime to speak out against homosexuality. Is this why MLC won't correct the impression given to 86,000++ with their pro homosexual video?

"Some (str8?) students at Midland Lutheran College in Nebraska were so enamored with the Fire Island gays' tribute to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA", they made their own. Must be some of those liberal Lutherans."

"Nice job Andy --- you just posted a video of guys "fagging" it up for the camera as a joke. Sadly the orignal video did not realize what a sad joke it was. This group knew they were making fun of a target. BTW this does show how "queeny" behavior is an affectation and easily adopted. Many homosexual adopt it to "fit in" with those they feel safe with IMHO."
Posted by: RJP3 | Oct 20, 2009 1:53:01 PM


"I wouldn't say they were enamored by the Fire Island version. This video seems to be more mocking and poking fun of the first one. They are for sure over exaggerating their movements to be "more gay" and queeny. Nobody hits a beach ball like that unless they're a gay cliche on a Fox television show"
Posted by: James | Oct 20, 2009 1:27:39 PM

"I prefer the Lutheran "fagged-up" version."
Posted by: Frank L | Oct 20, 2009 2:24:05 PM

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/10/lutheran-boys-do-their-own-miley-cyrus-fire-island-party-video.html#more

Some (str8?) students at Midland Lutheran College in Nebraska were so enamored with the Fire Island gays' tribute to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA", they made their own.

Must be some of those liberal Lutherans.


"Cherry Grove is one of two gay communities on the long barrier island of Fire Island. The other is Fire Island Pines...."

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Clueless in the MLC":

In all of the publicity the MLC video received and widespread discussions the only voices heard from MLC were those of the students and some parents. The fact that this homosexual video, parody or not, was allowed to exist after initial editing, viewing by the parents and faculty of MLC at homecoming and then distribution on the WWW begs the question: Who is making the decisions at MLC. It's as if the students are governing themselves. Anonymous at 4:30am may have touched on a key element to these issues. Just as the Lutheran Emergent Church Growth shrinkers are teaching congregations to 'break the rules' in supposed spreading of the gospel, they are teaching the same to the students and glibly watching the students exercise their new freedoms.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Clueless in the MLC":

Kyle Fax, my opinion is that an apology is not needed as much as a public retraction. How can anyone fix the full responsibility on the children who created the homosexual video when their parents approved and the MLC faculty condoned it. It's appropriate that they are contrite over making the video. The most important issue is that 86,000++ people have been given the impression that homosexuality is good, fun and enjoyable. Even if MLC was a secular school they should still publish a retraction because homosexuality is a sin and should not be promoted but condemned. The fact that MLC calls itself Lutheran (pledging themselves to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions) makes it imperative that they publicly retract the impression that homosexuality is good and right, for the benefit of everyone who views the retraction.

Their refusal to publish a retraction and doctrinal clarification using a method and mode at least equal to that used to publicly publish the offensive video (I recommend using YouTube - the same distribution channel) is a clear confession that they don't care about the sinful impression they gave to 86,000++ people and makes their claim to 'love the lost in Christ' a complete sham.

In my opinion the lack of a public retraction is not surprising since they they continue to confess the false doctrine of Universal Objective Justification which is contrary to Scripture, the Lutheran Confessions and Christ. When they destroy the central doctrine of Scripture you have nowhere to go but down.

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GJ - I read The Thword front-page editorial as an expression of their resentment, not as an apology:

But once the video left the context of the MLC campus, it came under unforeseen criticism from some who failed to see the humor in the video.

The most pronounced critic of the video was independent Lutheran pastor and blogger Gregory Jackson. Posts from Jackson, as well as comments left by the blog's readers, labeled the actions of the MLC students featured in the video unbecoming to future WELS pastors and teachers.

These claims were based on the video from which the creators of "Party in the MLC" took their inspiration--a previous YouTube video known as "Party in the FIP." Set to the tune of "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus, "Party in the FIP" shows a group of men performing choreographed routines on a beach while lip-synching the lyrics of the song."

"Party in the MLC" is a parody of the video, using the same soundtrack and many of the same routines.

The controversy over MLC students parodying "Party in the FIP" is derived from the lifestyle associated with "the FIP."

But makers of the "Party in the MLC" agree with other viewers that none of the actions in the "Party in the FIP" video would be considered blatant homosexuality. They also admit no previous knowledge of the reputation of Fire Island Pines. Ben Reichel, MLC student and video contributor, revealed, "We didn't find out until two or three days after we posted it that that's what it stood for. After we learned that we were kind of taken aback."

After learning of the offense caused by the video, the students decided to remove the video "out of Christian love" for those who found the video inappropriate. The decision to remove the video was a personal decision made by the creators of the video.

Reichel stated, "We all got together as a group --the guys who were in the video--and we realized that this caused way too much commotion and way too much negativity, and we all decided together that we were going to take it down."

After meeting amongst (sic) themselves, the students sought the advice of college administration. Reichel continued, "We went and talked to the administration here at MLC--the president and vice-president--and we got their thoughts on it too. But we knew before we even talked to them that we were going to take it down."

Matt Rothe, classmate of Reichel and video contributor, along with the rest of the students involved with the video, are ready to put "Party in the MLC" and the attention it has received in the past; "The group of guys who made this video only wished for good to come out of this video, and I must express firmly we wish for no more negative attention from it."

Huxleys, Darwin, Evolution, UNESCO

Loving Pigs: Forgiveness Without Faith (UOJ) and Enthusiasm

One of my favorite pictures illustrates a tender relationship.

How many noticed that the fake Ichabod had a lot of material supporting UOJ? That definitely came from a pastor, because laymen do not sit around trying to defend something no one can comprehend. I thought perhaps the author kelmed it from a pastoral source, but more likely a pastor forged the blog.

The Shrinkers in WELS are especially smitten with UOJ, and why not? Fuller has trained people in anti-confessionalism, hiding the denominational identity. In WELS, they love Babtists who cannot admit to being Babtists. Someone has to do a little research to find out Andy Stanley dedicates but does not baptize infants.

Ditto Purpose-Driven Rick Warren, (DMin, Fuller, just like Larry Oh!). Mrs. Ichabod and I heard him speak, that is, tell lame jokes. And we saw his immersion pond outside.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Loving Pigs: Forgiveness Without Faith (UOJ) and E...":

Good morning Pastor GJ! We are not justified before faith. We are not justified without faith. The Atonement is not justification.(objective justification is a fabricated word)"Faith Alone" justifies.

The Book Of Concord has been quoted many times by GJ, Brett , DK, myself, and others. So, I would like to share with the readers something else. In the book, "Here I Stand A Life Of Martin Luther", the author provides us with an interesting clarification concerning Luther's own words.

"There is the famous example where Luther rendered "justification by faith" as "justification by faith alone." When taken to task for this liberty, he replied that he was not translating words but ideas, and that the extra word was necessary in German in order to bring out the force in the original. Through all the revisions of his lifetime he would never relinguish that word "alone"."

Why are many relinguishing the word. No place does Luther ever use the term "universal justification." Knapp used the term, which was borrowed from the pietistic writers. The same example of borrowing that I used on a previous comment. For instance Koehler was influenced by Dr. C.H. Little.

Again, one has to always return to Scripture and the BOC. FIC articles should be read with caution( Yes, there are some very fine pieces in FIC [GJ - Schroeder's and...?] and "incharestin" pieces as well.)

In Christ,
from WELS church lady

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GJ - You have denied Universal Oinkjective Justification!

I knew Roland Bainton, the author of Here I Stand. He posed with Little Ichabod twice, and he drew pictures for us. Here is the last greeting card he sent us.

 

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Loving Pigs: Forgiveness Without Faith (UOJ) and E...":

I think WELS should drop the two doctrines of justification. It really serves no purpose since there is no salvation without faith. But then what would you jokers carry on about? You'd find something.

Plankless

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GJ - There is always "Party in the MLC" to discuss. How about 50 more comments on that?

Now that the props are being yanked out from under UOJ, the knotty problem is suddenly not worth discussing. Wood that be what you are saying, Plankless?

Does a doctrinal debate go against your grain?

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dk has left a new comment on your post "Loving Pigs: Forgiveness Without Faith (UOJ) and E...":

The question is: who don't you know?

You knew Bainton???

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GJ - Bainton was retired at Yale but still lecturing when I was there. People packed his lectures. I did a biographical summary of his life while he was alive, writing to his most famous students. They all contributed and that was placed at the Yale library. One student was the Roman Catholic bishop who marched in the religious service with Erling Teigen at Bethany Lutheran College. Small world?

On one trip we made a point of visiting him at his office at Yale's Sterling Library.

Bainton offered to do some xeroxing for me when I was working on my dissertation. He said he would copy parts of his book about Yale and the Ministry and send it to me.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Loving Pigs: Forgiveness Without Faith (UOJ) and E...":

"How many noticed that the fake Ichabod had a lot of material supporting UOJ? That definitely came from a pastor, because laymen do not sit around trying to defend something no one can comprehend."

I am a layperson. Is the above comment intended to insult the spiritual maturity of laymen? Or is it intended to illustrate the tendency of called workers, you included, to argue points that "no one can comprehend."? Laypeople can and do contribute to the spread of the Gospel.

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GJ - I meant to reflect upon the clergy. Look at LutherQuest (sic), where pastors posture 24/7. They have successfully avoided any real issues while bickering about small points. If Jay Webber, Rolf Preus, and the rest understood the Book of Concord, they would repudiated Church Growth and UOJ.

The WELS clergy now starting to opposed CGism were the same ones who ran away from the topic 20 years ago, locked in a room "for fear of the Judaizers."

In contrast, I find the laity keen on doctrine, discerning about the clear, plain words of Scripture. Many laity have contacted me and worked through the documents about UOJ and CG.

Perhaps the laity can force some issues into the open. Some are not convinced that Holy Mother Synod is infallible and indefectible.

Rural Congregations? Like St. Peter Freedom, Home of The CORE

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Looking for Vernon Harley Papers":

"We are going to have to rely on the rural WELS segment to step up and Just Say No to Enthusiasm."

What?!! Are you KIDDING me? Rural congregations? Have you been to any? Rural, country and city have nothing to do with this. I have been to more than one in fact many "rural" congregations that are just as on the path to Enthusiasm and wildly into CGM as you can get. Hear are two for starters:
St. Peters in Freedom North of Appleton. Ron Ash comes from there and is one of the founders of the Core. St. Peters is well involved with the New Paradigm church or what ever new name it takes this month. Even has more than one woman openly pitching Willow Creek-ism and all of the CGM methodology to women's groups in WELS or anyone else who cares to listen.

Rural congregation, St. Matthews http://www.stmatthewsonline.org/ is perhaps one of the newest and RURAL of how to redo your congregation into a seeker friendly, replete with doses of "Come to Jesus" talk.

Look at their web page above for your dose of "rural goes to the city."

No, Rural congregations in WELS are perhaps just as ripe or more ripe for the picking than any city church. It has nothing to do with the discussion. Error, false doctrine and Enthusiasm know NO boundaries.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

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GJ - The Scriptures and the Confessions are the solution, not the honeywagon.