Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance) Liddell & Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, v. sub εἰρωνεία-- is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions. Wikipedia
Examples of irony:
- Someone who spends two years in a parish doing political work and the rest of his life telling men how to be parish pastors, avoiding those chores himself;
- Pastors who satisfy themselves with an easy MDiv while acting as Professors-of-All- Subjects-in-the-Humanities;
- Lutherans who have never been outside of Holy Mother Synod yet have deep insights about what is wrong with everyone else's affiliation;
- Clergy who pose as pro-life while taking money from Floyd Luther Stolzenburg;
- Lutheran buildings that are erected in honor of an adulterer and named after him;
- Ministers who plagiarize Enthusiasts and cry "Foul!" when someone quotes a Lutheran.
- Synod Presidents who know nothing when asked about the facts and know everything when running down someone's character, citing the Eighth Commandment for cover.
- District Presidents.
- Clergy who secretly attend Fuller, Willow Creek, Mars Hill, Exponential and other festering cesspools while shunning faithful Lutherans and driving them out.
- Synod bureaucrats who always demand agreement or an abject apology and say in exasperation, "It's not us versus them. We are the synod."
- Lutheran church leaders who gather all their wisdom at the feet of Babtists, unless the Babtists shun the NNIV in favor of the KJV. Then them Babtists are ignorant, red-necked buffoons.
Tyrannical Waltherians.No, wait. That is utterly consistent.
PS - Lidell's daughter was the Alice in Alice in Wonderland.
