Latin Professor Comments on Widespread WELS Plagiarism

The Latin Professor commented on Thou Shalt Not Steal...WELS

The explanation for so much “cut and paste” these days is really very simple. I remember back in the 70s when I was serving under the Mission Board and attending required meetings that one of the main mantras was: 

There’s no need to “re-invent the wheel” – if you do something that works, share it; if you find something that works, use it.

Of course, in those days that meant using the old mimeo machine or new-fangled copier. These days with computers and the internet it is much easier and quicker. Thus the practice has spread quickly and thoroughly. And since it had the approval of the administrators for decades, it has become quite common. In WELS, this is now “SOP” as they say in the military. Somehow the term really fits.

But maybe we should add an ‘L’ in between the ‘S’ and ‘O’ for “lazy,” making it “SLOP,” which it usually is since it is stolen from heretical sources.

I wonder if the seminary and district presidents are really proud of what you found?

I would have quoted Bob Hartman or Norm Berg directly, but frankly I can’t remember which of them used to say this the most – I think it was Bob. Might also have been Larry Zwieg. What a tribe of bozos all those guys were back in the day. Even I didn’t realize it at first. They snowed a lot of guys. 

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GJ - ELCA, Missouri, WELS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie fell hard for Church Growth gimmicks. The CLC (sic) pretended to be above it all, but Paul Tiefel--an even worse version of his evil cousin James Tiefel--led the way in promoting Church Growthism in his dying sect. One of my sources says that the CG virus is almost universal in the CLC (sic).

The CLC (sic) is the toxic sludge found at the bottom of the WELS/ELS crankcase. Do not ingest. Do not even approach with mask, gloves, and a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Just run.

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The same thing happens in Evangelicalism. In Evangelicalism, the pastor has become the center of ministry so you have pastors peddling all sorts of teaching even topics not appropriate for the pulpit. The cult of personality is present in Evangelicalism therefore the moment a pastor gives credit to someone else, he fears, he will lose his customer base. So admitting that he got the idea from someone else never happens.

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