Synodical Smokescreens Always Work the Same Way

This is another touching vignette from
The Sausage Factory, Mequon.

The denominational spin-doctors need to learn some new tactics. Their old methods worked well when they controlled the magazines and the grapevines.

But now, no one reads their insipid magazines, and anyone can search the web. Court cases are on the Net.

Aww.  Synodical Whac-a-Mole was so much fun. Maybe they will bring it back, like Missile Command, so the drones can play it again.

SP Schroeder needs to study psychology or read The Kidnapper's Law and Gospel. When he bans people from reading Ichabod, the forbidden fruit is that much more tempting. And word gets out - "I am not to read or even touch it - lest I die."

Any college teacher knows that the best way to keep students from studying something is to make it required reading.

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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Synodical Smokescreens Always Work the Same Way":

This is a stellar example of how the synodical leadership is out of touch with many members. Prohibition rarely achieves its desired effect. We live in a culture where many have become less trusting and respectful of authority. Furthermore, we are admonished to be like the Bereans. That is why personal study of the Scriptures and the Confessions by the laity drives the UOJ fanatics even more stark raving mad. Many of them would rather have you eat the cotton candy Kelmed from the Enthusiasts. The effects of false doctrine are like a festering boil that needs to be lanced. Synodical leaders do the members a great disservice when they ask them to follow them blindly.