Is Life Today One Big LARP?

 "Theology is the grammar of Faith," as Paul L. Holmer wrote. Synodical grammar is atrocious today.

LARP stands for Live Action Role Playing. The term is often used today. The idea is that paid members of an event create a false impression by the way they act during and after an event. The LARP becomes a factual news item and part of history.

For example, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was real, but the "surprise" part was not. Republicans in Congress held an investigation. Most people will say today that we had no idea that a giant, noisy convoy of ships steamed across the Pacific, using ship-to-ship radio, and remained undetected. Books have written about what we knew then and who was kept in the dark, such as the Pearl Harbor commanders.

There are alternate narratives to many major events in history, especially in the last century. I enjoy reading about them and considering which versions are the most credible. America is not strong on knowing or retaining history facts. I can picture a nation-wide poll on Waterloo coming up with "a famous song by Abba," not the date (1815) and the main characters (Napoleon, Wellington)
involved.

QED, the Wuhan Flu is real, but the response has been a LARP, especially the legendary and imaginary "second wave," a clever way to sell face-diapers in many imaginative designs.

 The ushers, greeters, and ministers must smile, and be Golden Retrievers, not guard dogs of the Faith.

The Denominations and Synods - One Giant LARP

I read that Mrs. Jerry Falwell Junior was quick to rebuke anyone (via her contacts) who suggested Liberty University was less than perfect. I thought, "Yes, just like like WELS, Missouri, ELCA, the CLC (sic) and the rest." Criminals are absolved and promoted. Those who question Holy Mother Synod President Hategood are beaten like rented mules - their first and last warning.

The Hategoods are simply the fruit of the 150 year old LARP. They should be pitied, because the evil tree will always produced corrupt fruit. When the current crop is finished producing unbelievers, new examples of the same syndrome will replace them.

The Calvinists first - as Congregationalists - became Unitarians at the academic and clergy level. The real truths were limited to the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God. I saw that in New Haven, when a church group (Congregationalist in origin) was horrified that I agreed with the articles of faith in the Apostles Creed. Yale Divinity School (Congregationalist in origin) swore that no more Lutherans would be hired to teach there - those professors were too conservative.

The Methodists and Episcopalians joined the parade to perdition. The first steps were Social Gospel activism, aided and abetted by "Biblical scholarship" that treated the Scriptures as one more interesting book, entirely human in all respects. Sometimes the Social Gospel activists were discovered to place all their trust in Marxism...oh no! Everyone got used to the Marxists pushing their agenda at all levels. Lutherans were always "a day late and a dollar short," as Stanley Hauerwas liked to say in his ethics classes.

Lutheran embraced and militarized the same goals as the mainline denomiations, first on the left side (ALC, LCA) then on the right side (WELS-ELS-LCMS):

1. The KJV is spoiled by relying on a bad, old, unscientific text.
2. Our genius generation knows how to promote a new, scientific Greek text of the New Testament.
3. The Bible is just a book about religion.
4. Jesus died on the cross to free us from lack of success, poor time management, and neglect of socialism.

Not entirely, but for the most part -

• Lutheran worship is gone.
• The Creeds and Confessions are "boring and irrelevant" as one WELS leader said.
• Any old Bible will do since we learn so much from 57 varieties of each verse.
• Lying, deceit, and slander are the modus operandi in all the synods, serving their Father Below.

2 Timothy 4 KJV

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

 This cat has chick-pox. Where is your face-diaper?