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| The tu quoque fallacy is familiar from childhood and LutherQueasy - "and you are too." |
I got an email from The Coast about libel, slander, etc on LutherQueasy, asking me to make some distinctions. I mentioned their tu quoque fallacy and got this graphic back in a few minutes. We were discussing slander, libel, and when those labels do not fit.
Slander is the term used for speaking falsehoods - the mother's milk of synodical administration today. Everyone is afraid of the "WELS Grapevine," as they call it, or The Slander Machine, as it really is. The leaders pump lies into their Grapevine to discredit anyone who has fallen out of favor. That is also part of gaslighting, an article everyone abused by the synod should read.
The Grapevine works because the SP, DP, or CP says, "This is confidential and you cannot tell anyone." Hoo boy. That has to be good. Of course it gets repeated but no one can credit the original person, who is protected by the Seal of the Anti-Confessional. This approach breaks up potential alliances, which terrify the synod leaders. That is why their first question about a scandal is, "Who told you?" The slander follows.
Once I mentioned to Kuske that we were going to a gathering, which was a birthday party. He got all frightened and asked what it was about. It was purely social. When I got back from a CLC (sic) church, the sect president's mother got out of her car and asked all about the meeting.
Slander is speaking a falsehood with an intent to harm someone's reputation, and it is roundly condemned in the Large Catechism, proving once again that the leaders do not know or follow the Confessions.
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| Not according to Luther, Melanchthon, and the editors of the Book of Concord. Therefore, they are also blind guides leading others into the pit. |
There are several defenses against slander. One is - the matter is true. So it is not slander to call Matt Harrison "Matt the Fatt." Nor is it slander to identify Matt, Mark, and John, as blind guides and scoundrels, because they are - by definition - since they oppose the Gospel, Luther, and the Book of Concord.
Tim Glende had to admit to the judge, when he and three others sued a WELS man for the "crime" of defending his wife and telling the truth - the charges against Ski were factual. Therefore, Tim and Ski and two women on the staff had no case at all. And yet, after Tim's lawsuit was tossed out of court, the other three wanted to pursue their phony case. Are Tim and Ski the Booze Brothers? They pretended to start a coffee shop ministry and turned it into bar-hopping. Booze Brothers - not slander.
Libel is publishing harmful, false information. Cardinal Jack Cascione realized that his anonymous gremlin was getting him into serious legal difficulties. So Jack admonished the miscreant, which prompted a hollow apology and more of the same.
Some would say it is cowardly to publish libel under the guise of a fake name. Cascione and the webmaster know who it is, so they are hardly innocent. Cascione often reminds his disciples, "This is my website. I pay for it."
Am I wrong in calling them poorly educated, inarticulate, and lazy? Their bunch calls me a Calvinist for publishing Luther. The LutherQuashers can call me a heretic all day - that is a matter of opinion, easily clarified by detailed, factual information. Do they provide any? No, they just like to whine and accuse.
I publish provocative terms to make the UOJ Stylists angry enough to answer back. The real issue is - are they accurate terms? They cannot condemn me for polemics. If they read Luther once a year or so, they would find many polemical passages in his writings.
Faking the foul is not only popular in soccer but also on websites. I will encourage them to do more of that, because they expose how weak their dogma is. They lack the courage to confess how much they hate Luther and Justification by Faith.
I have lavishly quoted their favorite authors, like Eward Preuss and Rambach, to compare them with the Scriptures and the Confessions. They simply whimper and accuse.
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