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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Appreciation for Pastor Nathan Bickel":
"America is falling apart in every way possible".
I wish that more Baby Boomers could understand this. Many of them lack a historical perspective on what is happening right now. I live close to a coal fired power plant that just installed a very clean generating unit. Many embrace the latest high tech toys without knowing what it took to get there. We used to have a coal burning furnace in my childhood home. Even with the stoker, it was a dirty type of heat that was a lot of work. There was the shoveling of the coal and cleaning out the clinkers.
Yet, advances in scrubbing technology has made coal power generation very clean and cost effective. The advances have made the old energy sources better. But, we are told to embrace "green energy", like wind turbines. The cost of the turbines must be subsidized by government grants. Likewise, the same type of subsidy applies to ethanol, corn alcohol. This is an outgrowth of farm crop subsidies, the brain child of the FDR administration.
The same type of historical and critical analysis should be applied to Americanized Christianity. Recently, Ichabod posted an article about the decline of male singing in the churches. What Luther put back into the church, entertainment evangelism has taken away. It is very distressing to witness Baby Boomers latch on to the latest CG tactics like a barnacle to a ship bottom. A generation ago, the catechumens were drilled with the Gausewitz Catechism as if we were in Marine boot camp. When I look at the laity today, all that I can say is, "my people perish for a lack of knowledge". Most of what passes for Christianity today has changed sanctification to the sanctimonious. This would be yet another consequence of not preaching and teaching Justification by Faith alone. Both the quality and quantity of Christianity in this nation has declined precipitously. The Boomers need to stop fooling themselves.
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GJ - I asked about a wind turbine at a retail store. "That is just for show. They are a waste of money."
The original Gausewitz, before it was bogged down with improvements from a bunch of addled pinheads, was simplicity itself - Luther's original catechism was first as the document to read. Second were the verses to show the Scriptural support for each doctrinal point. The new catechism is instant mashed potatoes for kids with attention deficit disorder, so they do not realize they are being fed Universalism.
That is probably why VP Paul Kuske went ballistic on the UOJ graduates being produced at the Sausage Factory. WELS changed doctrine without informing anyone, including the clergy. DP John Seifert disciplined Kuske in public by stripping him of his emeritus status - fairly silly, even by WELS standards, but significant.
The local paper in Appleton published several flattering stories about The CORE, but they have not asked why the star of the show was kicked out (albeit temporarily, if Deputy Doug Englebrecht has his way).