WELS - LCMS - Seminex - ALC - ELCA. UOJ all the way.
Many people act upon falsehoods and repeat them. For instance, almost everyone seems to think that birds feeding at a bird-feeder will die of starvation if the residents go on vacation for two weeks. The birds do not depend on bird-feeders any more than humans depend on Fritos to stay alive. Nevertheless, the myth of the bird-feeder as songbird heroin continues. These are some of the mythologies spread by ignorance, lies, and PR smokescreens:
- The Saxon migration took place for religious freedom. Truth - everyone came over for one reason only, to follow Bishop Stephan.
- The Saxon migration created the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Truth - Loehe began a group and invited the St. Louis/Perry County associate to join.
- C. F. W. Walther discovered Bishop Stephan's adultery and deposed him, taking charge as a heroic savior of the nascent Missouri Synod. Truth - Stephan left after being under house arrest for sexual abuse of his members, taking his mistress along but leaving his wife and children at home. Truth - Walther had to know about the adultery before they left, but he had to skip town himself, for kidnapping his niece and nephew from his father's parsonage.
- C. F. W. Walther was an orthodox Lutheran who tried to set everyone straight, thanks to his study of Luther. Truth - Walther was a Pietist who continued his amalgamation of Halle Pietism and Lutheran doctrine.
- The Old Lutherans battled the New Lutherans in America. Truth - All the American groups began with Pietism. The lager-Pietists from the Muhlenberg tradition (Pietism aged to perfection) took their Enthusiasm to the next level - revivalism. The General Council split continued their Pietism in some respects but worked toward fidelity to the Lutheran Confessions.
- Walther was a hero. Truth - Walther left Europe a criminal and engaged in additional felonies in taking over the Missouri group, including the crimes of robbery, mob action, threatening the life of another person, and kidnapping.
- The Syn Conference taught UOJ from the beginning and always has. Truth - The Missouri Synod had a justification by faith catechism in German in the early 1900s and still publishes a KJV catechism which is justification by faith. Gausewitz wrote a justification by faith catechism (German and English), which was used by the Synodical Conference until WELS replaced it with the UOJ Kuske monstrosity.
- WELS, Missouri, and the Little Sect are not in fellowship with ELCA. Truth - they have been happily working and planning together for decades, largely through LWR and Thrivent (AAL-LB) functions.
