Kitteh on Lemons Makes for a Sour Puss

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Mike Wallace Interview with Margaret Sanger, Plann...":

Oh gee, how did I know that the first comment would have a something negative about the WELS? Well, at least it keeps with the topic of this blog--more WELS bashing. Only season the blog with other things the number one priority of this blog and its supporters is to speak ill of the WELS.

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GJ - The number one priority of this blog is carefully and precisely described - dealing with doctrinal apostasy.

How ironic that the Church and Changers--like the Brothers Gurgle and Kelm and Valleskey and Roth--advanced their careers by bashing WELS. The first thing I heard upon joining WELS was a sneering comment about "page 5 and 15" Lutherans. Church Growth offered something so superior to the liturgy, the creeds, original (Lutheran) sermons, and actual hymns.

Like the Global Warming frauds, the WELS Changers had to suppress anyone who was Lutheran while their wolf-pack made fun of the substance of the Gospel. It worked great until they ran out of money to loot from the synod, foundations, and Thrivent.

I am only too happy to bash false doctrine, which is the purpose of this blog. I have to make up for what the colleges, seminary, and feckless DPs failed to do. Luther said he had a prayer for the false teachers - May God dash them to the ground.

The WELS answer has been to promote false teachers to the highest positions possible.

Those with reading comprehension skills have noticed my regard for the new leadership of WELS, for the positive steps taken (alone among all the synods) toward confessional integrity. It was a long way down, as Mischke and Gurgle know, so the road back will be lengthy and difficult.

The person commenting is like the man who refuses a scan because it might show a cancer growing. "You're just patient-bashing!"

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Kitteh on Lemons Makes for a Sour Puss":

I too had a similar experience of hearing all the bashing of p. 5 and 15 by some in WELS who have gone on to full blown Enthusiasts. It bother me enough to actually find out why. That was learned by actually reading the confessions of the Lutheran church.

I just nearly broke out in holy laughter a few minutes ago, when I realized that I thought seminary graduates had actually READ or STUDIED the confessions. I mean, I would THINK they would when they say they "quia subscribe" to them, but then never teach them in classes. Funny how those things just kind of hit you out of the blue.

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GJ - Justifying all kinds of Babtist and pop music with "adiaphora" is proof they have never comprehended the Book of Concord. That is like saying, "I can drink that fluid because the label says it's poison."

More proof - "You are equating the Confessions with the Bible."

Bonus proof - "I worship Jesus, not Luther."

And even more - "You are a legalist."

Mike Wallace Interview with Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood Founder

 

Why does ELCA include abortion on demand in its medical plan?

Why does Quiche-nik work with them?

Here is the video.

Margaret Sanger in her own words.

TEXAS FAITH: Tim Tebow's Super Bowl advertisement
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University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, a Heisman winner, has prepared an ad that CBS has said it will run during the Super Bowl. Supported by groups like Focus on the Family, Tebow's ad will tell the story of how his mother decided to give birth to him despite medical complications that were severe enough that doctors recommended against it. Serving as a missionary abroad at the time, she returned home and went ahead and gave birth to him.
Some organizations, including the National Organization for Women, want CBS to pull the ad. They claim introducing the subject of abortion is political advocacy and doesn't belong in a Super Bowl telecast.

Norman Rockwell in the Home

 

Norman Rockwell - Family Tree

Norman Rockwell defined our week as I grew up in Moline. We always received the Saturday Evening Post, so we looked forward to his covers. The same magazine covers were kept by our teachers and framed for our classrooms, so the humor continued. In doctor's offices, I still see the famous illustration of the boy examining the doctor's diploma as he awaits his shot. The humor of the painting dispels the anxiety...somewhat.

We also received Boy's Life, another large and well written magazine. Rockwell painted for them as well. Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts were big in that era. I had a uniform, handed down, and peaked at the level of Wolf, with one gold and one silver arrow. I quickly ran out of awards which could be earned without going outdoors. Reading the Post was more interesting.

When my wife and I saw a sign for the Norman Rockwell museum, we went there without hesitation. Moline was very much a Norman Rockwell town, with parks and baseball games and amateur theater. Any day at Melo-Cream brought an array of colorful characters, from the DJs of WQUA to the permanent residents living on the margin of society. Several visitors could be counted upon to ask for a little work to tide them over, from time to time. My father would give them a broom, which they pushed slowly and reluctantly through the shop, growing thirstier by the minute for their reward. One man, round enough to be the Pillsbury Dough-boy, told me about the cure for alcoholism - eating brewer's yeast each day. That quenched the craving for John Barleycorn. He did not seem to be benefiting from the cure.

Even the most eccentric characters were no threat. Like Mayberry on TV, Moline had characters who knew their limits.

One time our night watchman came in for a rest and coffee. His technique was to leave paper scraps in doors, to check on whether anyone had entered a business after hours. Someone pointed out that the slips also told robbers when he had last been there. No one minded much because robberies were extremely rare, even at a 24 hour shop like Melo Cream.

The watchman was complaining about how tired he was when a well dressed gentleman said, "I have cool room where you can rest as long as you want."

The watchman said, "No thanks."

When they left, I asked one of the workers, "Who was the man in the suit?"

"The funeral director from down the street."

Knowing the Stars

 

Left-click to enlarge Orion.

When I had a telescope with a 10-inch reflector, I read the astronomy magazines, went to the local astronomy club, and discussed celestial events with friends. The telescope, nicknamed the Water Heater, attracted people who begged to look through eyepiece. 

The prominent stars, all the planets, and the constellations have names. I learned the Messier objects, how to find them with star charts, which are just like road maps. The Messier objects have names and numbers, like the star cluster in Hercules, M-13. I still remember the name and number. People used to gasp when they first saw the hundreds of thousands of stars in that compact cluster. "How do you know all these names?" they asked. It helped that one of my members was a retired, published scientist.

I kidded people about learning what was going on around them, every night. Knowing the names and events gave me a greater appreciation of God's Creation. That also began my efforts with gardening based on Creation rather than man-made chemicals. I sold the telescopes and bought earthworms, organic gardening books, and seed. Recently I learned that the pioneer of organic gardening in America, J. I. Rodale, departed from life during a TV interview with Dick Cavett. Rodale had just told a journalist he was going to live to be 100.

Curiosity

Curiosity leads people into asking why things are so, but many do not seem to want that knowledge. 

Curiosity led me into research about the conservative Lutherans. The conflict between what they claimed and what they practiced was simply too bizarre. They also made it clear that such topics were too sacred to touch, like the emblem on the floor of a school.

A number of Lutheran writers were like Erasmus before the Reformation, willing to identify some problems but afraid to go any farther. Some leaders have retired (or should retire) from their Fuller-educated, Church Growth saturated careers. Others are retiring in another way, secret critics of CG, timid dissenters who have urged others to do what they would not, for fear of the Enthusiasts. They have lived well by doing and saying almost nothing, trembling at man's word instead of God's Word.

The results are in from this clever plan. 

1. The Lutheran schools teach Zwingli's doctrine or lead future pastors into Romanism. Millions of dollars have been wasted to undo the Reformation.
2. The Lutheran insurance company--promoted in the conservative and apostate congregations--donates millions to secular causes and champions the radical Left. I asked one famous editor about this, but he just received a big grant from Thrivent. His congregation was a Gold Star member. I asked another editor years before, who wanted an article. He got his grant and lost interest.
3. In spite of all this brilliance, the conservative Lutheran schools are all in trouble, in spite of serving their Father Below for decades. How could that cloven-footed rascal let them down? The Father of Lies has a reputation for promising everything and giving nothing. A little research might have shown that.
4. As if they have to prove how foolish Lutherans have been, ELCA is busy driving out their biggest congregations while re-instating the very pastors who never should have been ordained, due to their desire to be the husband of one husband or the wife of one wife. While all that was brewing, the conservatives were secret or open bedfellows with ELCA.

Confirmation

Every day I get confirmation that the information on this blog is useful. If I get a signed email from someone new, expressing appreciation, I also get anonymous accusations that only support what I have been publishing. Both are encouraging in their own way. Otten's former co-worker - Paul McCain, MDiv, has made his hissy-fits public.

One pastor said, "Your posts really get me upset. Then I read the comments and realize you are correct." I joked with one minister that WELS could have silenced everyone by publishing one issue of The Northwestern Lutheran where the Book of Concord was discussed and recommended to readers. He laughed and agreed it was true. Instead, the wizards at the Love Shack renamed their magazine FIC and gloried in their shame.

That is improving in WELS. I even hear that... I will keep that one to myself for now. Reading the Feedjit map is fun. Whenever I post, Appleton and Texas light up, along with Mankato and Milwaukee. 

The apostate leaders thought, "We have Marv Schwan's money, Thrivent grants, and our own Tetzel program for draining estates of cash. We have it made." Spending went up while Schwan money decreased. People realized Thrivent was not their best bet. Selling indulgences got to be very competitive, too. An inundation of money through various headquarters proved that cash was not a Means of Grace after all. Who will speak for these sleek bureaucratic cats when they face the Day of Judgment - the widows they robbed, the congregations they destroyed, the children they betrayed?

Lutherans to Fuller: "You lied and programs died." And apostates cried.

To mock the apostate Lutherans who coveted and emulated them, the citadels of Schuller and Kennedy are selling assets to stay afloat.

Hope and Change

I see a few glimmerings of hope and change. The financial crisis has doomed spendthrift Reformed evangelism as synods begin to go Galt, living for less. Quiche-nik is being threatened by the next election in Missouri. Pope John the Malefactor, Dark Lord of the Little Sect on the Prairie, may not stay in office as long as George the Everlasting. People and congregations are escaping ELCA at last, relearning what they should have known about the Christian faith.

In small but significant steps, WELS is experimenting with Lutheran doctrine. I suggest trying it for a few years. If that does not work, they can always go back to puppets, popcorn, rock music, and soul cafes. The WELS schools may have to collapse to reshape them as Lutheran entities. The next few years are going to be very difficult, even if some common sense returns to the political realm.

Institutions are temporary. Jesus did not say, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but your synod will not pass away." He said, "My Word will not pass away." The Gospel rain moves on, especially when people do not thank God for the Scriptures and the Confessions. 

M-13, the star cluster in Hercules.