Dig Yourself Into a Hole, to "Escape" Dig Deeper


As the pool of Christian voters gets smaller, Republicans are reacting by making the pool smaller. While this will cause them to lose, it makes them feel better. Christian Republicans are in a death spiral and don't really care. After all, they are right and the majority are wrong.

One never knows about politics/religion, but it seems like a good period for secularism and liberal thinking. The right needs to stop the bolder coming down the mountain at them but they move closer to its path. How can more draconian rules against abortion do anything but super charge women's rights advocates?

I'm not sure this is of any interest to anyone except me but I enjoy poking around denominations' webpages to watch internal meetings and presentations. I suppose candid discussion is like dirty laundry and kept out of sight to a large degree. Yet, it's possible to find some dirty laundry. 

I can't stop looking at a video series presented by a couple of preachers in the denomination called Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Here is just one that happened to come up today. While most of the conversation is a front pretending to be about dull and esoteric topics withing religion, the entire purpose of the podcasts peeks out from the edges from time to time. 

Paraphrasing, the message of the site is, "We young pastors in the LCMS can see the numbers. Our denomination is falling fast. It is falling because it is getting old, is mostly in declining rural areas,  needs part time preachers starting new churches but the requirements put ordination out of reach for most, is an all male clergy and needs to include women and needs to spend its missionary dollars in the U.S. instead of in other countries."

The denomination, however, is run by old men who do not want to change. The old men of the denomination have plenty of money so it does not need to chase dollars. Young pastors can see it the denomination is in a death march and they, so far, have been unable to move the boulder of narrow thinking.

The LCMS to me is a macrocosm of the Catholic church, Southern Baptist Convention and the entire Republican party. "You can't fix stupid" applies to all. It is entertaining to watch.

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