People who read - an increasingly small number of the population - realize that the content becomes embedded in our minds and we crave for more of the same. That is just as easily true for trivia as it is for the foundational truths of the Scriptures.
I had undergraduate classes where no one could answer the obvious academic items yet every arm shot up when I stumbled over the name of a famous celebrity. As I have said before, the day came when no one wanted excellent free books, because everyone had a "smart" phone and a laptop. Undergrads laughed at my flip phone; I secretly laughed at their smartphone bills.
Eating good nutritious food leads to craving more of the same, setting aside and even forgetting what we once thought was good. I eat from one tiny area of the Supercenter - frozen foods and fresh produce - and almost nothing else (some meat each day).
Ideas are like food. Luther is mocked today - especially by Lutheran leaders, the worst rascals calling themselves
- Orthodox
- Confessional
- Conservative.
Luther's unified view of the Bible enabled him to open the Scriptures to the eyes of all, the same agenda as William Tyndale who wanted everyone to know the Word of God and recite it while working. Luther was close to execution for a long period of his life. Tyndale was snatched back to England so King Henry VIII could have him executed, burned at the stake.
The persecutions failed because they spread the Word of God even faster than before. Religious clashes made it necessary for English Protestants to find refuge in Switzerland, then America. My ancestors came from England and from France, for the same reason - freedom of religion, the Bill of Rights Article completely ignored during the Covid melodrama.
The Christian Faith does not fade from persecution but from substituting trivia and Romanism for the Gospel. WELS, Missouri, ELCA, and the CLC did not die for the Church Growth Movement, but they were certainly eager to kill for it. Likewise, they put up with any false doctrine that sooths their itching ears, and any alcoholic, adulterous artificial pastor scattering the flock, but opposing Objective Faithless Justification fills them with murderous rage.
I can write without fear or favor that the collapse of the Lutherans will continue and grow. Their stats are entirely fake, so look for the real numbers of traditional men at the seminaries. They are the canaries in the coal mine, increasingly small in number, like a Boy Scout troop stationed at an almost empty Army base.
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