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| Shocked, shocked! |
We are now at the Captain Renault stage of Christendom, as many recall the famous scene in Casablanca.
The captain has been forced to raid and close down the casino run by Rick (Humphrey Bogart). When someone demands to know why, the captain says,
“I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here." In seconds, a staff-member hands him a wad of money, "Your share." And Renault, unshocked, says "Thank you!"
Every bishop, District President, and circuit rider is trained to say those words, whenever the need arises.
His Eminence Jim Heiser was equally stunned, as he dissembled about Objective Justification, 13 years after reading Thy Strong Word and realizing - as he said to me in 2000 - "I did not know how bad OJ was!" WELS Pastor Paul Rydecki's defenestration from WELS left Heiser shocked, shocked! on a video tape that there was OJ going on in WELS.
Likewise, WELS was shocked, shocked to find Martin Luther College men cross-dressing and cavorting to a plagiarized song.
Matt the Fatt is shocked, shocked about everything criticized in the LCMS, even though he has been a fellow traveler in those circles for decades.
A future ELS seminary president said, after reading a bundle of material from WELS, several decades ago, "If half of this is true, we are in real trouble." I said, "All of it is."
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| Laszlo steals the movie by leading the patriots in the French national song, defeating the German attempt to win by singing loudly. |
