Guest Post

Les is a fellow servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Unlike me (a Catholic), Les is a Lutheran. He just posted this and gave me permission to share it. I am including my comment to him in reply:
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I'm not sure you can find a denomination where Satan has not made inroads to one degree or another -- even in the Catholic Church, as I have mentioned several times in the past couple of years, and especially recently at the Vatican.

St. Paul spoke of such things in 2 Cor 11:13-15 "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds."

Stay faithful, my brother. Follow Jesus even if it means to the cross. He is in the process of separating the sheep from the goats, and clerical garb is not necessarily synonymous with holiness.

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Les writes:

The Lutheran Church has lost its mind. It has lost its moral compass. It has no right to call it a church of Christ. Its most famous pastor promotes sexual immorality.

I recently received an email from Kevin Strickland, the bishop of region 9 for the ELCA. In the email, it said the Lutheran Church passed a social statement titled, “Faith, Sexism, and Justice: a call to Action” The aim of the resolution and the regional 9 bishops’ call for a “Bishops’ Relational Agreement for Boundaries” is to level the playing field for women in the church. It advocates equal pay as well as respect and dignity for women in the ministry. It also goes on to state that patriarchy is a sin. That in itself is humorous as God instituted patriarchy in the Old Testament and Paul confirmed it, but let’s not let the bible interfere with the ELCA social statement or my post.

What absurd hypocrisy! The most famous Evangelical Lutheran pastor in America is Nadia Bolz-Weber. She has been interviewed by the press world-wide, has had numerous appearances on CNN, and was even was highlighted at a Ted Talk. She has a best-selling book called, “Shameless.” In the book she advocates a sexual revolution in the ELCA. She advocates consuming hard-core porn. It you are offended by hard-core porn, she says there is an ethical porn alternative.

This woman advocates watching woman being reduced to sex toys without a brain. The only lines they have to remember is a groan or moan. Porn teaches young men and boys that girls will take their clothes off the minute a man walks into the room. 60 minutes did a segment on how porn influence the attitudes of young men when they enter college. The men’s only exposure to women has been through porn so many of them assumed that during the first date, the girl would jump in the back seat and say, “I am ready for sex.” Is it any wonder the Lutheran Church has a problem with sexism? Porn dehumanizes women. It makes them look like idiots. It makes them look like slaves to men.

Porn also promotes drug use. Women in porn find it easier to perform while on drugs. They moan better and don’t suffer the immediate moments of regret after a scene.

Pastor Weber found out about a movement encouraging chastity called the Chastity Movement. A young girl will make a promise to God to not have sex until she marries. She then will wear a chastity ring. Weber was outraged. She encouraged the young women to break their promise to God and mail in their rings. When she had enough rings, she melted them down and poured it into a mold of a vagina; I guess it is the modern day golden calf. She then gave the vagina to Gloria Steinem at a women’s liberation awards banquet. She has been quoted as saying that it is okay to have sex with anyone, any time, at any place, as long as it is not with a dog or a child.

How can an organization that promotes gender equality and respect at the same time promote the debasement of women? How does that work? Outside of keeping a woman tied up in the basement, porn has to be the worst thing to happen to them. They look like half-wits/morons with curvy bodies. If the church was serious about getting respect for women, it would encourage women to not appear in porn. It would launch a movement to eliminate porn but for obvious reasons, that won’t happen. As a side note, a majority of porn is now produced by women so the argument that men trick women into acting in porn is mute.

The ELCA is in desperate need of a Martin Luther!