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| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the SynCons know how to do push-back. Unlike the older senator, they never repent and confess their sins. They continue to get even. |
This is the Facebook page - Divorcing the LCMS from Thrivent.
I tried to join it, but that seems to be pending. I saw a number of FB friends on that page, so I imagine their cases went through while mine was held up by...paperwork.
Nothing pleases me more than the new-found shock about Thrivent supporting Planned Parenthood. By extension, Matthew Harrison and Mark Schroeder and Pope John the Malefactor also support Planned Parenthood. They continue to work with them and plead for money. They are banking on Thrivent, literally.
But the SPs' outrage will be turned against me and that logical conclusion, not against the source of all their loot, benefits, and luxuries. The bosses get the first fruits from Thrivent, which they consider their right. Matt Harrison--as Henry of Navarre--might say, "Fifty to sixty million dollars a year are worth a few dead babies and scarred parents."
Brett Meyer publicized Thrivent's support of Planned Parenthood in 2009. One outraged LCMS member wrote, "If Thrivent does not stop, I will cancel my policy." That is one tepid voice of outrage, certainly in harmony with the general spirit of our age.
I watched "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" with Mrs. I today. Sassy watched it too. In that movie, poor Smith gets slimed by the entire political apparatus when he resists funding for the dam project. The media cooperates too - not unlike Herman Otten's support of the SPs.
The boy scouts supporting Smith go to their own press, a forerunner of blogs, and get the news out, but they are beat up and run off the road too. I have lost count of the people frightened into silence or scared into joining the shunning. I now have to run through a lot of blogs to get anything worth reading, even to say, "Ain't it awful?"
History books says the formation of the Melanchthon Synod created the General Synod split. The liberals won the vote in taking them in; the conservatives walked out. Soon there was a seminary in Philadelphia. That was good news - a bad decision precipitating a confessional reaction at last.
So we need a Tepid Synod today, one formed and asking to join the LCMS or WELS - or both. The Tepid Synod should practice Holy Communion with lukewarm water and actifed tablets. The bulletins would say, "We don't ask, so please don't tell - closed communion with a difference."
