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| Father Hollywood - LCMS - takes the knee, to show his solidarity with UOJ, his longing for Rome. |
Several decades ago, the late Richard John Neuhaus (LCMS, AELC, LCA, ELCA, Church of Rome) ran an unsurprising story about a national survey. Executive summary: the nation's leadership was already far more Left-wing than its citizens. Neuhaus theorized that this divide would eventually become obvious.
The system, both religious and secular, held together as long as the leaders faked a centrist view while steering everything to the Left. The National Football League was associated with all things good, proper, manly, and patriotic - until a few spoiled millionaires began protesting against the National Anthem and our flag. The NFL took the wrong side and exposed the rot within.
I abhor anyone who shows disrespect toward our country, where every single resident should honor those who have suffered and died for our freedoms. My neighbor was (and is) an Army Ranger. His sainted stepfather was an Army Ranger. Both men endured countless injuries fighting for our country. My former members have included men who survived the Pacific theater of WWII ior served in Viet Nam.
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| The apostates have a deep bench. The next ones will be even worse. |
ELCA Exploded
I became a Lutheran and joined a typical LCA parish - pipe organ, choir, youth group, liturgy. That was about 1965. The LCA became ELCA in 1987, still fooling people about its radical Left leadership, but installing an obvious quota system to leverage the damage. All their plans exploded in 2009. Six retired bishops said, "This is too much," and formed a new denomination - NALC, similar to the older LCMC. Perhaps 25% of the entire denomination left the Left or just drifted away, but certainly not to the LCMS, WELS, or ELS.
ELCA's seminaries began shriveling and merging. Vast amounts of support vanished, but one would never know it from ELCA's long march to destruction.
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| Why do the ELDONUTs sport Eastern Orthodox beards? They hated their elected District Presidents, so now they have a bishop-for-life, who even tells them how to vote for the US president. |
LCMS-ELS-WELS-CLC
The supposed conservative leadership of Lutherdom is just as Left-wing, pouty, and incompetent as ELCA's. Like ELCA, if someone differs with their destructive plans, they get even with the blokes - many times over.
How are the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC sects Left-wing? Let me count the ways:
- They have abandoned the Scriptures in favor of paraphrases like the NIV, ESV, and the Message, their animosity fueled by a scornful attitude toward the traditional New Testament Greek text.
- They teach exactly what the LCA/ELCA teaches - Universalism. God's grace means (for them) that everyone is forgiven and saved. They only need to be told this. In this respect, 99.9% of Lutherdom in America is in agreement with the National Council of Churches - the old, mainline apostate white-washed tombs full of dead men's bones.
- They can barely conceal their contempt for Luther and Justification by Faith. Is it a co-inky dink that their carefully controlled "independent" editor - Herman Otten - is on their side on all the important issues? He opposes Justification by Faith and brags about selling anti-Luther propaganda from the Church of Rome.
- Some clergy have left for Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy, but many more want to dress up and pretend they belong to Holy Mother Rome, incense drifting in their nostrils.
- They openly reject the historic liturgy, to such an extent that congregations using it are rare and far apart.
- Their contempt for traditional Christian hymns and the Creeds is just as obvious. WELS had to have feminist creeds and hymns, copying the horrid Lutheran Book of Worship (LCA) and borrowing heavily from its content and design. The snotty ELS - supposedly far better than WELS - also used LCA/ELCA material in their not-best-selling hymnal.
- Although they lied about it for years, these sects are infatuated with Fuller Seminary and similar frauds, pouring millions into supporting the Church Growth business, aping its dogmas and destructive results. They excommunicate anyone who disagrees, but gladly "tolerate" those who go along with the agenda.
- They practice women's ordination, which is both the consequence and cause of their apostasy, or they quietly promote the agenda. They let the ELCA harpies rule over them in lavishly funded Thrivent programs. They are in bed with ELCA, just as they are in bed with Fuller. And ELCA is in bed with Fuller - joyfully leading the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC down the road to perdition. Fuller advocates women's ordination and disciplines any student who questions women teaching men or usurping authority over men. But hey - who takes the Pastoral Epistles seriously?
Some ELCA Leaders
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| Julie Sevig, ELCA magazine writer, identifies with the alt-left. |
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| An ELCA Bishop - April Ulring. |
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| The new United Lutheran Seminary president is an ordained Presbyterian minister, and former Associate Dean of Diversity. But there is no diversity in Lutherdom's leadership - it is 100% apostate. |
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| ELCA pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber makes some WELS hearts flutter. |
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| Susan Johnson is the president of Wartburg Seminary, one of two started by Loehe - both sems went bad. |
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| The ELCiC bishop is in Canada, but she is one with ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC. Those happen to be the synods where Horst Gutsche served. Really! Not the ELS - he died too soon to get into their sect. |
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| Gutsche was still working with the CLC (sic) before he died, so Horst really had a wide stance, with one foot in ELCA, the other in the CLC (sic). |
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| ELCA Luther Seminary President Robin Steinke is one of three (3) ELCA seminary presidents who are women. |
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| Mark Hanson did marvelous work as ELCA Bishop, driving them toward the cliff, but Eaton went full Thelma and Louise off the cliff. |
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| ELCA Pastor Jodi Houge will speak for Mark Jeske's Change or Die! conference, which may even mention the Reformation's 500th. Please don't, Mark. We are just as ashamed of your Lutheranism as you are. |
