Dear Missouri Synod Lutherans: The pro-life line of “all life is sacred from conception to natural death” sounds great but contains a subtle Roman Catholic error. Genesis 9:6 (and also AC XVI) makes it clear that capital punishment is commanded by God. 🧵

The Scots are our brothers. The same as the English and the Germans. And all of Western Europe are close cousins.

If you think regulatory law doesn’t matter, stare at this bottle until you realize your error.

Weird how Mormons always seem to judge religion as though it were fiction. "It's better if Satan is Jesus' brother;" "Our version of heaven/hell is better;" etc. I'm Christian because it's true; and whether you find your fiction more compelling doesn't really matter.

Same game the LCMS plays. "Corporate immediately washed their hands of it, hiding behind the excuse that this specific location is an 'independently owned and operated' franchise."

It's odd for pastors be upset that the digital age has opened their preaching to public scrutiny when it was always subject to the scrutiny of the Stricter Judgement.

🚨 LCMS convention season is coming up 🚨 🧵of hits from the last one in 2023

"Put the best construction on everything" does not require the frog to trust the scorpion.

On the surface, it sounds like Boomers hate you. Or like they have the attention span and logical thinking skills of a goldfish. Neither one of these is true. Their complete dismissal of any of your concerns, and their total refusal to understand your situation or worldview, is actually quite sensible in light of one key fact about them. They're not hateful. They're not dumb. They just have an incredibly low emotional pain threshold. They cannot stand to feel bad about themselves for any reason, even for a moment. When you create a meme like this, or you tell the story of how you are forty years old and can't afford a house because you trained for three different careers and got rugpulled by work visas and offshoring every time... ... then they don't even think about it as a worldview or a perspective or an experience that you have. They don't think about you at all. They think only about the effect on their own self-esteem, which must be parried. You have, you see, told a tale of playing life on hard mode, which implies that they were playing life on easy mode, which implies that they are not wizards of insight and paragons of virtue. That's why they will immediately respond with these incoherent lines about whining and bootstraps and firm handshakes and avocado toast. Of course they don't make sense. They don't have to make sense. The goal isn't to persuade you of anything or engage with you at all. The goal is simply to have an excuse to avoid thinking about something which might make them feel bad. These Boomerisms are magic talismans used to ward off emotional discomfort, in much the same fashion as all the species of plants they smoked their way through when they were your age. I don't see a solution to this. I don't know any way to tell Boomers that Hart-Cellar, CRA1964, DEI, open borders, social welfare programs, anti-racism, gay marriage, gun control, the sexual revolution, etc, were massive mistakes and need to be stopped, while hiding the obvious implication they were the ones who made those mistakes. If we wish to save Western civilization, to make things good enough again that actual Americans can manage to have homes and marriages and children, then we're going to have to find a way to work around the Boomers, because they're never going to get on board.

When a rando calls you “brother,” you should interpret it as when the Pharisees called Jesus “rabbi.”

Something really unseemly about all these pastors sharing stories of their depression.

👀 wait, you can just say that out loud?

derrickhurst.org/60-million-… An astoundingly dishonest review of the closure of several LCMS colleges and universities. Anyone who knew even a sliver of what was going on in those places knew: 1. why they closed 2. why their closures were not "the loss of a mission."

If middle-age women want an evangelism program, perhaps they can start with their adult children whom they ran out of the church decades ago.

“Islam doesn’t belong in Texas” < “Muslims don’t belong in Texas”

The internet bison don't understand the Streisand Effect, and it shows.

The women are very mad about this because it goes against their core operating principle ("More!!!"). The truth is that women are programmed to not accept a lower standard of living than their baseline at any point, ever. A woman's thermostat for what standard of living is acceptable is set in her father's house. If he sets that thermostat too high she won't likely find a young man who can clear the bar, leading her to postpone marriage (perhaps indefinitely) as she searches for someone who can. This problem is aggravated in our time by the fact that Boomer affluence set the thermostat for Millennial/Gen Z girls to a civilizational record high while concurrently Millennial/Gen Z boy jobs were being offshored, given to foreigners, or (most especially) given to women. As a result, Millennial/Gen Z men pale comedically in earning potential compared to their peer women's fathers. Learning from this involves the current generation of fathers being intentional about where they set the standard of living thermostat for their daughters. Not to open the door to every Tom, Dick, and Harry, but to ensure that there's more of a pool of men for their daughter to feel comfortable choosing than the 6 foot 6 figures crowd, which statistically prohibits most women from marrying if adhered to. If you love your daughter, you won't raise her such that she can only find happiness by being one of the few who lands a man in the top 1% of the bell curve. This is basic common sense, which is why most people in my mentions don't understand it.

Marriage stopped being a smart economic play with the implementation of Duluth, so the only reason left to do it is faithfulness to God. Which is why marriage is now something only fringe religious people do.

> be Martin Luther > translate Bible into German > include Apocrypha between OT and NT > literally writes in preface“These books are not held equal to Holy Scripture, but are useful and good to read” > Trent dogmatically declares their canonicity in response > 19th century Bible publishers remove them to save money > accused of removing them by midwits 500 years later > mfw the absolute state of historical illiteracy

Amazing how every episode of Jeopardy has only three contestants, yet on every episode at least two are queer

This is a theological choice.