The storm is not upon us...yet. I follow the weather maps closely for our little NW corner of Arkansas. We are almost always spared the storms that rush by above us (Joplin, Missouri) or below us (Little Rock).
I was thinking about winning and losing tonight. Massive losses are accumulating for those who engaged in evil and treachery years ago - and cover it up, as best they can, today.
I miss so many leaders of the past, like FBI head Comey. And Dick Cheney, the embodiment of evil. At the funeral of George HW Bush, Cheney looked up at the camera recording the event and glared so ferociously, it looked as if he willed the camera to fail from his power. If I were winning, I would smile benevolently or put on a sad face about the passing of the former CIA Director.
When the Obama crew posed for their goodbye photo at the White House, all of them glared into the camera, Cheney style. I noticed one particular redhead trying to break the camera lens. Four years later she became the press secretary, so bad that her communication attempts are animated for everyone to enjoy. I will circle on back to her later.
Synod leaders are like that. The evil ones are easily forgotten, and most hope they are. I was thinking of the radical professor who said the LCA was 99.9% controlled by men - she was posing on the cover of their magazine. That was Elizabeth Bettenhausen. She was here and there, but has escaped the reporting of Google. The latest datum is about 30 years old.
Liz won for her side. She gave the Mattson lectures for no apparent reason. When I raised the issue of the funds being siphoned and the endowment money misused, the key person used my favorite phrase in talking to the sem president, "I have already talked to my attorney about this." Dead silence was followed by frantic efforts to heal the wound.
Now ELCA has at least 50% female bishops, so justice has been done and a new age is upon them. Unfortunately, the Pyrrhic Victory means that the golden dawn will rise upon empty churches, hollowed out and merged seminaries, and necessary liquidation events.
ELCA is the warning for the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC-Eldonia bullies. The office of bishop or faux-bishop is pursued by those who will do anything to get and keep the power. However, once they are in the posh leather chair, speaking ex cathedra (not wiki but a favorite source for LutherQuest and Harrison), they only accelerate their doom.
