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| Add the WELS rule - "Always defend the classmate!" and the interlocking relationships are easily forged. Add feminist John Hartwig to the list, plus a few others. Yellow means - known apostates. |
rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Burning Down the Sect":
A friend of mine who has retired from OHSA once told me about the Interlocking Directorates Handbook.
A good description of it is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate
Since WELS is such a tiny sect, and the other players are small in number and tightly knit, postings here on Ichabod are usually sufficient to expose this network.
In the Austrian School of Economics, this can also be called the "Rothbardian Analysis", so named after Murray Rothbard. Old Murray had a way of finding out how unsavory characters were connected to each other and exposed it in his writings.
I would affectionately call the vetting process here on this blog the "Ichabodian Analysis".
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GJ - Mr. Schultz often adds great insights from corporate life. This certainly fits WELS.
The unifying effect among all Lutherans is derived from a doctrinal source - UOJ - and a money source - Thrivent.
All the synod leaders (ELCA, LCMS, WELS, ELS) have been trained at Fuller Seminary and its anti-Lutheran clones. If anyone has remained pure and spotless (in his mind), he has condoned the training of his colleagues.
I know the insurance companies, now combined into Thrivent, have always used Church Growth MBO training, with the agenda set by ELCA.
How It Works for Shunning
The interlocking effect is perfect for pan-Lutheran shunning of all those who might rock the boat. The person who knocks Thrivent is a threat to all little WELS businesses that depend on mutual back-scratching. Drop kick him into the outer darkness. I know of one WELS pastor who was kicked out for questioning the influenced of the fraternal insurance businesses. No one in the Big Four will knock Thrivent, or Jeske, on the Thrivent board.
If someone questions Paul Kelm in a meeting, one of his minions will jump up to defend him. Long ago, DP Robert Mueller said Kelm was in trouble for false doctrine. Now Kelm is in charge of Leadership at Wisconsin Lutheran College, another salary on top of his undeserved position as college chaplain.
That is exactly why the Big Four are burning themselves down. They know precisely how to liquidate dissent. That is their only skill. But they do not know how to teach the Gospel, administer the Means of Grace, discipline the erring, and gather the spiritually inert.
Direct interlocks in business are illegal, but they happen all the time. The Big Four pretend that the others are tainted, evil, and perdition itself, so it is illegal to fellowship with the others - except all the leaders are gonzo for working with the rest.
Some of you will object and say, "But the Little Sect and the Wisconsin Sect are in fellowship. They cherish their fellowship. They say that all the time." But I know what they say in private. They really loathe each other. Nevertheless, WELS makes sure that the ELS leaders are their lapdogs.
Reform Leaders are Reformed Leaders
SP Schroeder and DP Buchholz were supposed to be different, but the machine that produced them is also the machine that controls them.
One WELS college student told me, "All the Church and Change leaders you write about on Ichabod are the big heroes brought to the campus. We are supposed to imitate them. And the same thing is true at the seminary." I told that to Buchholz, face-to-face, and he dismissed that as false. Whether he was delusional or covering up - it does not matter.
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| The Concordists answered the false doctrine of Huber, but Huber's error is clearly reproduced here. No wonder WELS hates the Book of Concord. |
