I Shocked Various Lutheran Pastors, Telling Them - "Saddleback is Babtist."No!

Robert Schuller plagiarized one occultist and was honored for promoting Napoleon Hill, a lying, criminal, self-styled "business genius". Schuller insisted on dropping denominational names so Saddleback went one step more - nothing about "church"! WELS and LCMS went for the apostasy package like a hungry fish for the worm.

Christina and I spotted Saddleback on our California tour. We saw "Purpose Driven Drive" and concluded the church was there. I did not know Warren was a Babtist until I saw the immersion pool outside.

The "confessional, conservative, orthodox, quia" WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC sects are very fond of Warren's programs and approaches. Other idiots have provided their own spin on Warren's spin on Schuller's spin on Norman Vincent Peale's plagiarism of another book.

"Was the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, father of the “believe and succeed” theology sweeping American Protestantism, a plagiarist inspired by the occult?

A former Peale protege and a Unitarian minister think so.

In the current issue of the journal Lutheran Quarterly, the Rev. John Gregory Tweed of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the Rev. George D. Exoo of Pittsburgh write that many of Peale’s uplifting affirmations originated with an “obscure teacher of occult science” named Florence Scovel Shinn. Lutheran Quarterly is a juried academic journal of theology and history, with a national circulation of 1,000.

After comparing his books to hers, the authors cite scores of specific instances in which Peale and Shinn not only think alike but use similar or identical phrases.

Tweed began investigating the Shinn-Peale link in 1990. Friends who credited Shinn for their success had given Tweed her book, “The Game of Life and How to Play It.”

“I came across the phrase, ‘When one door shuts, another door opens’ - one of the great Peale battle cries,” said Tweed.

Shinn, who died in 1940, drew on mystical sources dating to the ancient Egyptian philosopher Hermes Trismegistus and the secrets of Freemasonry, as delineated in “The Kybalion,” published in 1908 at a Masonic lodge."

Rick Warren

"He also studied at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California and earned a Doctor of Ministry."

 Warren is on the Matt Harrison diet and doing well.

Like his hero Robert Schuller, Warren made his church stance as vague and faith-neutral as possible, much like the WELS-ELS-LCMS today. He published the fact that a conference at Schuller's church (now a Catholic cathedral) changed his life.

Marines Raised the Flag on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945

 

Can Matt the Fatt Be Fixed in Time for His Re-Enthronement?

I enjoy seeing colorful costumes, but once a year is enough - on Halloween. Some children eat way too much candy.

The same Matt Harrison who put the fake Luther's Large Catechism on hold is now vilifying those who question its merit. His recent tirade suggests Matt is condemning Matt and using his staff to pile on. "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 1:8

Attacking people in vague but menacing terms is common in the Synodical Conference hierarchy. Every target of venom is supposedly causing the ruin of the sect, even though the leaders have done a dandy job of wasting money, indulging their appetites, and destroying congregations by playing politics with the pastor.

His Holiness, the Synod President, is in an awkward place. He did not complete graduate work, not even from the notorious diploma mill called Concordia Seminary St. Louis, where a PhD has worth only in the LCMS. He was mostly a fund-raiser for his non-profit corporation, which he shut down once he was SP.

This new Large Catechism is a fake because it is only 15% Luther's Catechism. That should remind potential buyers of the so-called CPH Small Catechism, weighed down by 400 pages! of fluff, including sly efforts to promote Objective (Faithless) Justification.

CPH also created the windy dogmatics volumes, easily a match for the Braaten-Jenson fiasco, which ELCA disavowed while selling it. That may have been the model for Luther's Large Catechism.

Ye victims of Harrison's twisting in the wind, get a Large Catechism which is 100% Luther - or just open up the Book of Concord. Luther is the best Biblical teacher of all time.

And remember - this Synod President was a nobody who visited Herman Otten and sang a flattering ballad dedicated to Herman Otten. However, when Otten was close to dying, Matt the Fatt sang a vitriolic song in public, calling the kingmaker "a liar" and "crazy."