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| McCain's expert in theology, Kilcrease, teaches at a Roman college. Father Jack inspired the Icha-verb "to kilcrease" by erasing his own comments. |
Ignore the scandals, smut and financial ineptitude of your church leadership. “Don’t Sweat the Weeds”.....famous last words:
BJS did damage control for Holy Mother Synod last night about 9 p.m. after PT McCain made a botched attempt at information misdirection on behalf of LCMS upper management.
The blowback off the Schauer Affair is a revelation of ecclesiastical decadence and moral schizophenia by Missouri’s Leadership. This is an ongoing problem.
This is also part of the Information Reformation. The dull old fashioned information outlets cannot cover up and do damage control to the extent that they have in the past.
It’s not so much that this case is rare or exceptional---- it’s because it is endemic. This isn’t about a few bad apples, but rather, a bad barrel.
The point of reference, Updated Predator Thread and the previous post disclosing same was deleted, here’s the explanation.
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Same old playbook---the lame excuse to appeal to higher moral authority, applied selectively-- 8th commandment, again.
The real reason to delete two posts was that McCain made a really stupid mistake. He tried to pull a fast one and got caught by Pr. Don Kirchner who corrected him on facts and sources.
To the best of my recollection the blog thread near the end went like this....... McCain wrote in the comment section that he had personal knowledge from an unnamed but authoritative source that makes the supposition that Darwin Schauer (alleged predator) was not a predator as originally stated back in 1983, that the complainant (stepdaughter) recanted, and the record of same was expunged.
Pastor Kirschner refuted that fallacious statement and then wrote back to McCain the source of his own erroneous remark and why the source was unreliable. So, McCain got caught attempting to spin a fictitious scenario of events.
Rev. Wurst wrote that McCain was spreading gossip.
The ad hominems in the discussion came from McCain.
Wurst called McCain to repent.
Too bad the thread was wiped out. It was illustrative of how incompetent and short sighted the decision skills of two Minnesota DP’s, two dead pastors, a circuit counselor, and one executive VP Synod (Diekelmann) really are!
You could review the decision tree for yourself had the posts not been deleted. The posts were illuminating to the character and conduct of CPH’s walking book of knowledge, McCain.
It is ironic that the LCMS leaders – who carefully make sure everything is legal schmeegal – then go on to presume to lecture the rest of us on ethics.
Bad leaders put the well being of Synod multi-national corporations and nations ahead of common morality. Lord Acton’s dictum is backward. Power doesn’t corrupt people, the corrupt seek power. 1
BJS began to drift when they became Harrison’s political action committee. After ten years of Kieschnick, it’s easy to see why they’re psychologically attached to Harrison.
The problem with leadership is that there is always somebody higher up in the food chain that you have to please. To get ahead or get along you have to make compromises. Compromises have consequences and people get hurt.
It’s better to follow good ideas from Scripture and doctrine, rather than to follow men or their infallible consensus.
BJS failed Pastor Kirchner because they sought the approval of men ahead of letting the facts speak for themselves or doing the right thing.
The synod is a corporation, not flesh and blood; therefore, the artificial personage cannot repent. But BJS could restore the thread and let the folks decide for themselves.
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Also, you may be interested to know that at the recent BJS conference we reformulated our Board of Directors and are working on a new version of BJS that will have less reporting of and commentary on church political news and more articles encouraging confessional understanding and edification in good piety and spiritual exercise.
Rev. Dr. Tim Rossow, Editor
Rev. Joshua Scheer, Associate Editor”
What a load.
BJS, ya blew it.
It’s understandable though-- it is one of those unwritten rules: it is a career wrecker to go against the infallible and omnicompetant consensus of the magisteria.
We’ll be seeing more posts about BJS re-education experience in cell groups Doxology training and Koinonia. Cell groups and relationship maintenance programs can really screw with your head. After a while the group consensus becomes your god.
BJS will have to write a lot of cell group Doxology puff pieces to redeem themselves with TPTB in St. Louis and the COP.
What’s that cheesy and forgettable sloganeering campaign again? Oh yeah, Koinonia.
The Blogosphere is never going to run out of material pointing out the inconsistencies and the moral schizophenia of LCMS leadership. Carry on, Koinonia.
'via Blog this'
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GJ - Readers, bloggers, minders - that is why I copy the verbiage and link it as well. Many pages have disappeared as soon as I mentioned them here. The loss to Lutheran doctrine and practice would be incalculable if they were not preserved verbatim here.
Some people use wayback and google archiving to find old pages. I enjoy the amusement of someone wanting to say something in public and then erasing it.
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| McCain's UOJ expert, Jack Kilcrease, ELCA alumnus times two. |
I thought I saw women professors on the list before, but I do not see them now. I saw a Fuller alumnus - heavy!
The pub and Playboy subset of readers will ask, "How is this different from Notre Dame or Yale?"
This program looks like a glorified seminary program, but it carries no value, except bragging rights among the uninformed. "I have a master's degree from Wittenberg!" Parishioner: "Oooooh."
Academic programs are not denominational. They simply judge scholarship, something lacking in almost all seminaries. Unlike faux-Wittenberg, Yale and ND degrees are worth something because the programs are extremely choosey and difficult to complete.
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Ignore the scandals, smut and financial ineptitude...":
Explains once more why Neuhaus became Roman. All the synods he had been acted like mini-Vaticans and so , why not go for the Real McCoy whose pedigree has some history of so called apostolic authenticity.
Synods do not deal with the politics of the country, they already have their own politics to preoccupy themselves. It is just a matter of working the machine.
LPC
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GJ - You are right, Lito. I just got done discussing (via email) another major cover-up in the LCMS, the situation in Nicollet (where Darwin Schauer was convicted of sex with his 13 year-old stepdaughter), the Hochmuth scandal, and Marvin Schwan.
WELS sold Schwan indulgences for his many sins. Missouri and WELS have their church workers who play priest to the altar boys. The ELS told their seminarians that they would cover up the first act of adultery but can the pastor on the second one. That meant the congregation calling the adulterer (first offense) would be deceived about his past so he could start again.
There is a famous case in the Church of Rome where a bishop was praised for protecting a predator, because the bishop was treating the felon as a "son of the Church." The conservative Lutherans and ELCA do the same thing.
QED - why not join the real thing, as many Lutheran pastors are doing?
