One Eponymous Archon (https://me.yahoo.com/oneeponymousarchon) has left a new comment on your post "On Plagiarism":
Hey "Viewpoint!" You sound like one of those crazy Calvinists who have filled the WELS Headquarters for the past 30 years, who think "the church should be run like a business." That's why that dumb stupid sin-nod (sic) is stuck with a bunch of idiot laymen on their Council or whatever they call it. Just because they're suppose to be hot businessmen, that makes them qualified to run a church body. What an insane joke! Only the devil is laughing at them not with them! I seem to remember one nut-case in particular, a litte (sic) man but a big drunkard named (edited out). He was real big on using the "business model" to "improve" the WELS. Didn't work - except in reverse!
You are right about one thing. The WELS is really screwed up. I wouldn't belong to that bunch of lazy losers if you paid me. God would do Christianity and Lutheranism in particular a big favor if He would bring them down completely - and sooner rather than later!
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GJ - Businessmen love to hear that their denomination should be run on business principles. I have to wonder if that approach is a heart-felt desire by the clergy or just another bank of fog rolling in to cover their felonies.
WELS leaders have shown themselves to be as wise as doves, as innocent as serpents. Following the business model, they would have fired the staph of FICKLE (Forward in Christ, Lutheran) long ago, forced out most of the employees at the Love Shack, and canned the faculty of the Sausage Factory.
WELS has recently admitted to following the GM business model. They no longer get enough customers at Mequon, so the faculty is being paid to finish their graduate degrees. Only in WELS do they hire their seminary faculty before they have an education. Except in the Little Sect on the Prairie - a college degree may be earned afterwards - and that is the path to become an ELS pope.
Remember - education is a handicap for a WELS teaching career, unless it is a D.Min. from Fuller Seminary. For career advice, write Larry Oh! at Mary Lou College, Paul Calvin Kelm at Willowcreek's Little College, Steve Witte on tour in Asia, David Valleskey in retirement, or various other frauds and schemers.
