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| Goya's Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters |
My morning starts with pour-over coffee and reviewing books. I try to review one book a day on Amazon for the Lutheran Library/Librarian. We have this great producer of almost forgotten Lutheran and Christian books. They remind me of the silver mine found in Thorikos, Greece.
On the one hand, we have a very useful online selection - over 150 ebooks - portable, free, and easy to use for quotations. But what reader can resist the printed book? Now Alec Satin is using the ebooks to make print books on Amazon.
I named the book of the day "Luther Right or Wrong" in the blog post headline and wrote out the review for Luther Examined and Reexamined, the actual title, several times.
Search Engine Optimization - but you knew that already.
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| I met the author of Luther Right or Wrong? - cigar-chomping Father McSorley. He gave a presentation at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, taking Luther's side. Our dogmatics professor, Siirila, agreed with Erasmus in his undistinguished book. At least we heard both sides of the issue, unlike the sectarian Synodical Conference, where DNA establishes orthodoxy. McSorley sells for $75, Siirala for $7. Haha. |
That made me think of the Goya painting we studied in college, pictured above. Sleep can bring on the strangest dreams. I am often working in those dream, at the donut shop or in graduate school. Waking up from hours of imaginary and frustrating labor is a relief, but I am only half awake. My early morning typos are hilarious so I first drink coffee and read various samples of Lutheran and news posts.
We have two types of Americans now - the annoying "woke" ones, the final decaying stage of Pietism, and the "awakened" - the larger group (I hope) who realize they have been swindled by socialistic statism, robbed of their freedoms and peace.
The Left-wing Woke generation is humorless, always condemning, and rigid in following a set of man-made rules. They even dare to rewrite English so they are never offended. One Lutheran Woke website published the allowed pronouns for each leader. I did not find it later, so maybe it was laughed off the Net - but it will be back.
This wokeness is fed by a generation or two of Social Justice Warriors who have answers for all problems, especially problems that do not exist. The Woke leaders have lined their pockets with giant, expensive blenders in the air, useful for chopping up flocks of birds but very inefficient in generating electricity.
I could go on.
The Awakened are those who are studying the issues independently, acting upon the facts rather than letting the monsters of tyranny reproduce.
It is not an accident that Luther's break with the Roman Catholic theocracy of Europe brought on a new era of freedom.
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| No, the New Rome. |
