The liberal ALPB Online blog has banned one of their liberal participants "for life." His name is Charles Austin, and he has contributed to various ELCA periodicals. He is 100% in favor of everything ELCA does, which should please the Leftist group.
Since he is retired, "for life" is a relatively short sentence. Previously Paul McCain was banned.
I posted on ALPB a tiny bit. LCMS DP Benke, who communes with ELCA, and ELCA's Austin joined forces in trying to ridicule the facts about Walther. The site erased the entire thread, not because of their tactics but perhaps because the research overwhelmed their opinions.
The current attitude about blogging seems to be, "We want everyone who agrees with us to express their candid opinions. The rest will be banned, pilloried, and shunned." At ALPB, some of them (like DP Benke) seem to be online continuously. Someone who cares to join the blog can look at the thousands of posts they have written. Most of the opinions are unresearched.
I like that particular blog for its occasional unearthing of ELCA Schadenfreude. The German term means roughly - glorying in their shame. Yes, I enjoy watching their horrid seminaries wind down into insolvency. Like the suburban malls built on garbage dumps to reclaim land, these seminaries are founded on the effluence of modernism. They have forgotten their Schmauk, Jacobs, Krauth, and Passavant, just as WELS and the LCMS have forgotten Gausewitz, Luther, and the Confessions.
In ELCA, everything is so Leftward that their pioneer apostate--Carl Braaten--is considered an old fuddy-duddy by the elite and a Confessional Lutheran by the recent escapees in their quasi-ELCA groups.
No one seems willing to admit that ELCA, Missouri, WELS, and the Little Sect on the Prarie agree about justification without faith. With one accord, they proclaim this falsehood - that the entire world has been declared free from sin, justified without faith, and (covertly or overtly) saved without the Word or the Means of Grace.
Unlike the rest, I have read the original documents of Lutherdom and the current output. I hesitate to say, because they fly into a rage so easily, that I went far beyond taking notes in seminary in studying comparative dogma, distinguishing between various confessions of faith or unfaith.
The Lutheran rage against faith is so great that those who agree with the Scriptures and the Confessions keep their peace, since the UOJ Hive is so quick to sting.
