http://cyberbrethren.com/2012/09/16/commemoration-cyprian-of-carthage-pastor-and-martyr/#more-3342
Concordia Publishing House is a bit less deceitful on the McCain blog.
The Cyprian post is all copied. Apparently Missouri has this collection of nuggets on various church leaders of the past. That is the first part. Weedon has copied that part with an honest citation - "Today our Synod commemorates St. Cyprian of Carthage. From the Treasury and Synod's website." The website link does not work, but at least Weedon tried.
Here is another blog that cites the LCMS material:
http://watchfulone.blogspot.com/2009/09/commemoration-of-st-cyprian-of-carthage.html
McCain also includes a massive copy and paste from the Catholic Encyclopedia. Once again the citation is at the bottom, but actually names the source for Cyprian. However, he did not include the link to the Catholic Encyclopedia. A honest blogger would have cited the copy and paste at the beginning, or given more evidence that nothing was original in the Cyprian post.
This is too clever, because using Google on the first part reveals the LCMS material. Someone has to open up the entire post and do some investigating to realize the long part is all Roman Catholic, from a site designed to draw people into Roman Catholicism.
This is at the bottom of the LCMS copied material - For further details, read the extended entry:
Many people, including academics, have trouble finding the source of suspected plagiarism.
By copying part of the longer section I can light up
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04583b.htm on Google, where the match is 100%.
Oh look. The Catholic Encyclopedia post is full of internal links to more posts published on New Advent. Each sentence bristles with those HTML links. I know that trick. The more links embedded, the more readers stay within the website. It increases the page-reads. The plagiarizing UOJ critics have complained that I use my web design knowledge to promote other Ichabod posts by embedding links to more posts. How evil of me!
The curious who read about Cyprian in the sub-section called the Catholic Encyclopedia will find their way to the main page - New Advent - here (for Mequon graduates)
http://www.newadvent.org/
McCain probably copied the entire Roman Catholic post about Cyprian into WordPad, to drop all the internal links. The post keeps its neat paragraph form when copied from WordPad into a blog. All those nasty New Advent links drop out, effortlessly.
I get the impression that McCain always takes short-cuts in his work.
He is always warning people not to read my little Lutheran blog called Ichabod, but he does not warn people away from the Catholic Encyclopedia and the New Advent website.
Cascione's LutherQuest stopped posting McCain's dishonest Roman Catholic links. Perhaps too many laughed out loud about LutherQuest linking directly into a pope-smooching website.
The Cure
Bruce Kintz and Matt Harrison need to repent of their support for this dishonesty, not to mention the constant promotion of Roman Catholicism by a CPH employee.
McCain must apologize for his plagiarism and dishonest use of sources, especially New Advent and the Catholic Encyclopedia.
The LCMS is a joke right now. Matt Harrison ran on a Walther platform, but he has not kidnapped a single person so far. But he is robbing the synod by letting papists loose and doing nothing about them at the two seminaries.
Mark this down as mere gossip, but I was told Robert Preus wrote Justification and Rome because he was alarmed at the Romanism creeping into the seminaries through faculty. I see no reason to discount that theory.
Why Copy and Paste, Copy and Paste?
The idea behind writing and publishing is to advance the knowledge of the author and the audience. Very few blogs have anything new to offer.
No wonder clergy feel free to plagiarize their sermons. Their spiritual and intellectual muscles are flabby. They are like the blobs who need to get up and exercise but no longer have the strength and energy to do so.
When the writing is not fresh and not backed by any research, the readers are left abandoned. Copied material is dry and lifeless.
Every so often, when McCain writes his own material, everyone can see why he plagiarizes. He is hopeless,
