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| George Gilder has interesting ideas about socialism and culture. |
Wiki quoting Gilder
Religion is primary. Unless a culture is aspiring toward the good, the true, and the beautiful, and wants the good and the true, really worships God, it readily worships Satan. If we turn away from God, our culture becomes dominated by "Real Crime Stories" and rap music and other spew.... When the culture becomes corrupt, then the businesses that serve the culture also become corrupt.... Secular culture is in general corrupt, and degraded, and depraved. Because I don't believe in secular culture, I think parochial schools are the only real schools.[12]
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GJ - Socialism is the enemy of creativity, because socialism only wants to control and distribute wealth.
As Gilder spoke on the Levin TV show, he could have been talking about the Lutheran synods - and I include them all together - ELCA-WELS-LCMS-WELS and the micro-minis.
Their schools, big and small, all of them smaller all the time, are designed to establish mindless conformity. The tinier they are, the more the leaders - or leader - can enforce rigid conformity.
How successful are the Church Growth (Shrinkage) Movement (founded by a liberal secularist) and its makeover the Missional (Attritional) people? They never accomplished their supposed goal but instead set up their actual purpose - a system of absolute, brain-dead conformity.
ELCA is a bit different in turning out ever smaller baskets of Social Justice Warriors in the style of Nadia Bolz-Weber. But the "conservatives" work cheerfully with ELCA and claim they are doing so much while turning out ever smaller baskets of cookie cutter CGM conformists.
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| Why did the LCMS cooperate in a Book of Concord with Wengert, a leading gay activist? What better example of unionism could anyone find that that? What a message to everyone! |
These are the undebatable norms of ELCA-LCMS-WELSdom:
- The liturgy is bad.
- The pipe organ must be removed and replaced with a Praise Band - one that copies the yowling of the Pentecostals and Evangelicals, absent any musical talent.
- Creeds are bad.
- Songs should be modern and feeling oriented.
- Preaching is a bad word, but coaching is a good word.
- A synod leader might be a grinning, certified, money-grabbing Life Coach. Scary? Meet DP Kudu Don Patterson, rageaholic and potential Mordor professor.
- The culture is king, so it is past time to ordain women and all (fill in the number) sexes.
- Drag races no longer involve cars but male college students, seminary students, and pastors.
- The Book of Concord is boring and should not be discussed.
- Luther is the Donald Trump of the Reformation, a figure to be mocked and marketed, never studied.
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| Look for Justification by Faith in their communications? The same goes for "dissenter" Herman Otten, their favorite spiker of stories. |
