No rainbow stole...yet. |
Here is a really expensive robe for Matt the Fatt, but no fish hat yet. Time to catch up with ELDONA: a fish hat and a really big stick. |
I have watched many church leaders and craven laity stand there and lie, sometimes on the phone, but also by mail.
I have often carried out searches on the Net, illuminating to me, boring to most. I searched one name and got eldona.org showing up - no content, just the website domain, which had to be formalized in some way. That is the domain they use today. Go ahead, try it.
Anything new going on? "No." Yet that same parson had decided on an organizational name and established a domain for the group. This same parson used to cling to the LCMS the way lint clings to black slacks. I thought it would take a SWAT team to get him out of the synod. He waited for his pension to vest - not exactly martyrdom!
I continue to be astonished at the way clergy leaders lie, as if God does not know anything and we are also easily fooled.
Look at the data. The braggarts of yesteryear are hiding the statistics today. The very nature of their pronouncements sound like they are holding back the anguish, depression, and terror - "How much worse will it get?"
The United Church of Christ, a goldmine of mergers, has incredible losses, which seem to be accelerating.
Kent Hunter, Waldo Werning, Paul Kelm, and David Valleskey (all in partnership with ELCA) wanted people to look hard at their numbers. Will these Lutheran Quislings finally own up to their disastrous addiction to low-brow Calvinistic marketing flops?