A program of sending identical letters to newspaper has been uncovered on this blog.
The Chicaneries have a lot in common with the political Left. The self-destructive and self-centered attitudes are common. Chicaneries and the Left also want to be subsidized by the people they despise.
The plagiarism cited above is interesting because the people who did it are amazingly stupid. It only takes a little Googling to find out where the original words came from. That is how the plagiarism of Kelm and Parlow was uncovered.
In the old days, last century, when I built up the database code-named Megatron, I did this with comparing texts side by side. Internet searches were crude in those days. I copied the material into ProFile, a DOS program I still use, and matched up ideas and words.
I showed how the leaders of WELS were copying the ideas of Fuller, Willow Creek, and other beehives.
The plagiarism continues, due to the laxity of the Doctrinal Pussycats in WELS. The Chicanery ministers copy sermons, even sermon series, and and post them on the Net as their own. When caught, they stop posting the information. Repentance among the Chicaneries is limited to hiding the evidence.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Plagiarism Is a Disease of the Left":
Speaking of plagiarism,I found a replica of your school bus PhotoShop on another site. In defense of Jeske, Engelbrect, and others, I would have them say, "DON'T HELP ME," to their younger counterparts.
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
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GJ - The Shrinkers are lazy copy-cats. The anonymous fake, a Fox Valley WELS pastor and Ski friend, copies the name and the graphics, but he cannot equal the learning, research and wit of this blog. His cowardly pals, either from seminary or detox programs, try to drive traffic to the fake, anonymously.
I use the anti-anti-Church Growth blogs as a measure of my success. Three of them are trying, in their incoherent rage, to silence me. They fail to realize that I write for many laity and pastors.
One influential person wrote, "Your polemics help us feel sane."
The Chicanery bunch remind me of smog, which happens when one layer sits on top of another and holds down smoke and pollution. For decades this inversion kept everyone from discussing the doctrinal issues. Younger men who grew up in this smog are ready to let some fresh air flow through the Valley of the Shadow of Werning.
When traditional Lutherans read how crazy their synod has been, they no longer feel like exceptions. They are not. The Chicaneries have raped the synod (Missouri too) while devouring the funds for themselves. Their results have been abysmal, and they wanted to be judged by results. Now they want to be judged by their intentions - they are besotted with outreach and no one else is. Anyone claiming intoxication with outreach is a good guy - no one else is. Given that level of discernment, the Mormons are the best of all.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Plagiarism Is a Disease of the Left":
I love to read Ichabod. As one who was schooled in the Synodical schools and grew up in the Michigan District, I know the cast of characters. Most of what I read on this blog only validates what I already knew. Keep shining the light on it, Pastor Jackson.
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GJ - Izzat you, DP Seifert?
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What do you expect? They were trained to be parrots, not thinkers. They were rewarded repeatedly for parroting. All of a sudden they must think. That is not fair.
The left was saying the Tea Party Movement was an example of astroturfing, but as Ann Coulter said, whatever the left is accusing the conservatives of doing, that's usually a good indicator of what the left is actually up to--not what the right is doing.
The sad thing is, these errorists can't even think theologically after years and years of study at synodical prep schools, colleges and seminaries. Even a dummy layman like me could write a good sounding sermon reflecting the theology of say, Joel Osteen as an intellectual exercise. These shrinkers are so hapless they can't even write a "Babtist" sermon of their own devising.
Couple that ineptitude with their hubris and you can easily drive away dyed-in-the-wool Lutherans.
I don't know if the Mequon seminary has changed since the late 70s, but I was told most of the fourth year was taken up memorizing assigned Bible verses--as though it were the Christian version of a Koran school. That type of course could never be accredited since it doesn't involve critical thinking and learning--only indoctrinization. That's why UOJ reigns in the WELS because instead of having a real discussion of the verses involved, and exegesis, they blurb out several bible verses in favor of it--and that's that.
This reminds me of Cascione's articles against the word "incarnational":
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=8946
As I point out in the comment string in the Magness post, Dr. Newton, the President of the California-Nevada-Hawaii District is the king of this manner of speaking in the LCMS. The LCMS does not need a load of postmodern jargon and lots of invented words ending in “al” (such as “missional”). Instead we need straight-forward, precise scholastic doctrinal distinctions that help us preserve teaching of Christ rather than obfuscate it.
Speaking of plagiarism,I found a replica of your school bus photo-shopp on another site. In defense of Jeske, Englebrect, and others, I would have them say, "DON'T HELP ME," to their younger counterparts.
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
I love to read Ichabod. As one who was schooled in the Synodical schools and grew up in the Michigan District, I know the cast of characters. Most of what I read on this blog only validates what I already knew. Keep shining the light on it, Pastor Jackson.
Anon 7 p.m., wir äußern zusammen. :)
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