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Ichaslang Lexicon
To Krohn - To encourage someone to write a letter or meet with a pastor to discuss doctrine, the first step in excommunicating a person who actually follows that advice. Because of the Appleton incident, which was almost identical, this term is considered synonymous with Rick-Rolling.
Rick-Rolling - Not to be confused with the April Fool's joke. Rick-Rolling is the process of encouraging someone to write a letter to and meet with those WELS clergy who are promoting false doctrine, plagiarism, and deception. This is better than April's Fool, because the Doctrinal Pussycat ducks the meeting and leaves a letter blaming Ichabod for the mess he has created. Next the pastors excommunicate the member who followed WELS advice and the DP agrees. Rick-Rolling is jolly good fun for the rollers but not for the rollee. Synonymous with Krohning someone.
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A real important point about these letters that they ask critics to write. If the letter deals with the practice or the philosophy of the synod rather than doctrine, i.e., supposed adiaphora, they will ask whether the letter writer thinks that the synod or group within the synod has sinned. If the person answers "yes," they proceed to excommunication. If the person answers "no," they dismiss the letter as just being the writer's own opinion, and they just happen to be of a different opinion. Thus, they do whatever they want, and dismiss the concerns of many, or get rid of alleged errorists who disagree. This is how they handled the Protes'tants who disagreed with their philosophy of interpreting scripture and the confessions. They alleged that the Protes'tants were saying they were doing something wrong, i.e., sinned, and disfellowshipped them. The Protes'tants were forced out after writing a letter, they didn't leave on their own.
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