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| Bishop Stephan brought his free-love sex cult across the Atlantic, but not until his career as a pastor in Germany was over. Walther took over the leadership when young women got syphilis from their infallible bishop. But Walther blamed Stephan's adultery on Mrs. Stephan, who was abandoned by the cult in Europe - to care for her dying children, alone. |
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What is sad is to see seminarians follow this guy around like a bunch of teenage girls at a rock concert.
Very good analogy. These people are groupies of Walther.
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GJ - Scaer may make fun of Walther and Pieper - gasp - I do not know. He likes to drop contradictory declarations on his adoring followers. The problem comes from the SynCons following the personality cult template established by Stephan and Walther.
A careful study of Stephan, using all the sources, shows that Stephan could not abide any questioning of his leadership. Everyone had to agree or apologize profusely for not agreeing. The rest of the clergy made sure that wandering clergy were brought back into the fold by appeasing Stephan and subjecting themselves to his absolute tyranny.
Walther was no different. Every other Lutheran sect was full of false teachers and the friendly ones were driven away by his dictatorial malice. Walther had no trouble impugning the character of the saintly bishop's wife in order to make himself look less culpable in the adultery cover-up.
Walther began and pursued the election controversy by keeping a more qualified professor from teaching at Concordia, St. Louis. Walther's hagiographer preserved that episode (as well as slandering Mrs. Stephan). Walther made sure that only F. Pieper would do, and he changed the rules, as L. Fuerbringer pointed out, to manage the convention by himself and get it done.
Everyone should read the little Walther election book, which I reviewed earlier, to see what a crackpot demagogue and narcissist he was.
I do not know any current LCMS DPs, but the WELS DPs have the same characteristics as Walther and Stephan:
- They are poorly educated but rewarded for aping the simian ticket-punchers before them.
- They are absolutely infallible in thought, word, and deed.
- They confuse the Holy Spirit with their position.
- When their actions create conflict, they blame and slander others.
- They only like the clergy and laity who are the supplicants, who are either dumber than rocks or pretend to be.
- They leave behind them a trail of immorality, drunkenness, and false doctrine.
No one translated Walther's Pastoral Theology into English for the longest time, perhaps because they feared it being sold in the humor section of bookstores. One LCMS pastoral theology suggested gathering the elders for an excommunication. Anyone who disagreed with the excommunication was also excommunicated. That would continue until everyone was in agreement. How much more democratic could that be?
One CLC (sic) pastor set a record for excommunicating 105 members of his congregation. No problem. They gave him another parish and made him the editor of their scrofulous periodical.
As much as I detest the dogma and behavior of ELCA, the leaders seem to be much more civil in their behavior, just as Missouri is only half as corrupt as WELS, per capita. The WELS and LCMS clergy are so used to abusing and being abused, that few think something is wrong with their personality cults. As long as a pastor is popular (not necessarily faithful to the Word) he can do anything he wants.
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| The first 80 pages of Zion are appalling. Read your own history, SynCons. This book only costs about $10 used. |