This has happened several times before. When I enter an Internet discussion, having nothing to do with their favorite obsession, a UOJ Drama Queen starts attacking me and calling me various names.
Last night it was a Facebook discussion about the hero of the Ukraine war, where this one Ukraine man gave an emotional speech and chased the dictator out of office.
I asked about the lack of leadership in America. Suddenly I was being attacked "not a Lutheran" for denying their precious UOJ. We were discussing leadership and heroics - and the Ukraine.
I only mention this because it has happened many times before. The UOJ Death Squad lights up and goes into action simply because I post something mild (and not about UOJ) on a blog, or on a FB discussion thread. Some do their deeds anonymously. Others actually use their own names. Their hatred is so irrational that they engage in all kinds of irrelevant arguments and silly behavior.
The UOJ Army is facing a very difficult situation. In spite of their dubious claim that everyone is justified, forgiven, and saved without faith (as Jon-Boy Buchholz writes), they energetically condemn anyone who disproves their apostate thinking.
1. The UOJsts have not convinced many Lutherans, regardless of their spittle-flying threats and name-calling. Their Church Growth, clergy-adultery-promoter Paul Kuske attacked them and their beloved citadel of Satan in Mequon. Gausewitz is not on their side. Robert Preus abandoned them in time to receive eternal life through faith in Christ. Paul McCain backstabs them with his best-selling KJV catechism. It's hard to be a UOJ pimp in this town.
2. Their biggest, bestest, and most loyal allies are the mainline denominations, which also took over the language of Pietism to say that everyone is already forgiven without faith. That is precisely where the liberal Protestants place the meaning of grace. I read many of the great liberal classics of the 19th century at Notre Dame and studied the modern theologians like Barth and Tillich in great detail. My dissertation advisor was Stan Hauerwas, certain one of the best known modern theologians in the world. So - yes, I know. That is why no one tries to refute this simple assertion - UOJ is mainline, liberal Protestantism.
3. The traditional Universalists have the same UOJ argument and - oddly enough - they are often more conservative than the skirt-chasing, alcohol abusing WELS clergy who revel in their Antinomianism.
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| This shoots the UOJ philosophy to pieces, so they ignore it. |