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Hey, Tim Walz isn’t so bad. In an age when leftists compete with one another in how much they can repudiate and mock traditional values, it is surprising and refreshing to discover that the Democrats’ shiny new vice-presidential candidate, America’s dad, is a regular churchgoer. Walz’s Christian piety, however, is not exactly the sort of thing that would put you in mind of Augustine, Aquinas, Martin Luther, Mother Theresa, or any other prominent Christian you’d care to name. In fact, it’s just the sort of thing you’d expect: the far left at prayer.
The Daily Caller reported recently that Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz attends a church, all right, but you will not be surprised to learn that it’s not exactly a bastion of Christianity as it has been known up until these enlightened days. Walz attends Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn., where the worship is as woke as it can be. If it weren’t for the folks walking around in robes and the occasional prayers, Walz might sometimes get confused and think that he is at a Democrat party meeting, for Pilgrim Lutheran is little more than the Democrat platform in ecclesiastical trappings.
Pilgrim Lutheran’s stances on everything are tediously predictable, and 100% in line with the latest far-left wisdom. The Caller notes that “materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord’s Prayer, among other liberal practices.” Of course. Anything else would be racist, bigoted, sexist, and “Islamophobic.” Pilgrim Lutheran’s leadership would no doubt rather be burned at the stake rather than be accused of any of those beyond-mortal sins.
Walz’s church is, of course, not singular to his corner of the Minnesota Soviet Socialist Republic. Woke churches have spread all over our fair land, and are full of the blue-haired, gender-confused, and heavily tattooed whenever they feel the need to give the appearance that God or Gaia or Almighty Whoever heartily approves of their activities.
Pilgrim Lutheran itself is an outpost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which ditched traditional Protestant Christianity quite some time ago in order to chase after the left’s latest cultural fads and imbue them with a patina of sanctity. And so it is no surprise once again that the ELCA not only has female bishops but lesbian bishops, as well as female bishops who are really men but have demanded that everyone around them pretend that they’re women.
Unchanging dogma? Inspired scripture? Come on, man! Pilgrim Lutheran Church is far too up-to-date for that. In 2015, it adopted“Commitments and Guidelines for Language in Worship” that call for “recognition that a patriarchal culture gave birth to the writing of scripture and the selection of the canon. Unless the language is adjusted as we use scripture in the more inclusive culture of the 21st century, the worship service can be an alienating rather than a welcoming and evangelizing experience.”
All right. It’s reasonable in principle to try to communicate with the people you’re trying to reach in their own language, but when Pilgrim Lutheran speaks of “evangelizing,” it’s not at all clear which gospel it is exactly that they’re trying to spread. The guidelines direct people at Pilgrim Lutheran to “choose non-anthropomorphic language for God (examples: Eagle, baker, hen, bread), being careful not to limit these by following them with male or female pronouns.”
Okay, so God is an eagle, God is a baker, God is a hen, but never fear, God is still also Father, sort of. The guidelines say that people at Pilgrim Lutheran should “choose titles that suggest the activity of God but do not imply gender. (Examples: Advocate, Healer, Refuge, Sustainer, Creator).” However, they also use an ersatz Lord’s Prayer that ditches “Our Father who art in heaven” for the trendier “Our Guardian, Our Mother, Our Father in heaven.” At least they got “Father” in there, but the way things are going, He may soon lose his place to Our Trans God.
No aspect of traditional Christianity is spared. The Incarnate God of traditional Christianity became a male, but the guidelines try to help churchgoers gloss over that embarrassing detail: “Keep in mind that although Jesus was male, his humanity is more significant to our faith than his gender. Consider using terms like Christ, Teacher, Emmanuel, Savior, Redeemer, Word in addition to or as substitute for Lord or other exclusively male descriptors.”
Despite all this, Walz’s church calls itself Lutheran, which implies that it’s still Christian in some way, but if old Martin Luther himself were to walk into it, he would scarcely recognize it as having anything to do with what he preached. And of course, most of the focus is not on anything religious at all, but on aspects of the far-left’s agenda.
The church issued a statement recently that read: “We white citizens and congregants have been complicit in the systematic exclusion of Black, Indigenous, Immigrant and other People of Color from full participation in and benefit from the common good. We lament the suffering caused by our racism. We endeavor to live more fully a Gospel commitment to love our neighbors as ourselves by listening well, changing our hearts, and partnering with our neighbors in building an antiracist community of justice where all may thrive.” In other words, press that blue lever in November.
Pilgrim Lutheran is hardly Christian, and as Chesterton said, when men discard Christianity, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything. At Walz’s church, that includes Islam: Pilgrim Lutheran encouraged its people to “attend meals celebrating the Muslim holy day of Ramadan and by providing them signs to paste in their windows wishing those around them a ‘Blessed Ramadan.’” Got to be inclusive, doncha know. Never mind that one can become so very inclusive as to have no principles of one’s own, and that’s where Pilgrim Lutheran and Tim Walz are. If the Democrats ever change their stance on an issue, so will Pilgrim Lutheran Church. It’s a leftist mouthpiece posing as a church, just as Walz himself is a leftist mouthpiece posing as a patriot.
He belong in the Church of Satan with Pentagrams and Pitchforks and Pointed Tail and sign his name in Blood
Walz’s idea of church was represented very well during the olympic opening ceremonies in Paris.
God, the toothpick…
Listen Goldstein, Martin Luther was a rabid antisemite and would have thrown you and all the Jews to the wolves.
The vast majority of German Lutherans were enthusiastic supporters of Hitler and his Nazis.
“First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. [the Jews that is]” – Martin Luther
Ayn Rand didn’t like Jews either.
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I trust very little of which I see in the media.
I do trust my friends, and many of my neighbors.
Ayn Rand didn’t like Jews? That’s nonsense, Ayn Rand came from a Jewish background and she never hid it, nor was ashamed of it, nor was she proud of it. It was simply a neutral fact of her background.
It is true she did not like religion as such and therefore she didn’t think highly of any religion. But she had no particular aversion to Jews because they were Jews. And she was a staunch defender of Israel, not because it was a safe haven for the Jews, although she had no problem with a safe haven for the Jews, but because Israel was a country that defended individual rights.
“Ayn Rand on Israel (Ford Hall Forum lecture, 1974)
Q: What should the United Sates do about the [1973] Arab-Israeli War?
AR: Give all the help possible to Israel. Consider what is at stake. It is not the moral duty of any country to send men to die helping another country. The help Israel needs is technology and military weapons—and they need them desperately. Why should we help Israel? Israel is fighting not just the Arabs but Soviet Russia, who is sending the Arabs armaments. Russia is after control of the Mediterranean and oil. Further, why are the Arabs against Israel? (This is the main reason I support Israel.)
The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it’s the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. Israel is a mixed economy inclined toward socialism. But when it comes to the power of the mind—the development of industry in that wasted desert continent—versus savages who don’t want to use their minds, then if one cares about the future of civilization, don’t wait for the government to do something. Give whatever you can. This is the first time I’ve contributed to a public cause: helping Israel in an emergency.”
Ayn Rand, born Alice Rosenbaum, WAS a Jew, and I defy you to find a single antisemitic line she wrote. (NB: Atheism is not the same thing.)
Ayn Rand had Jews in her background.
But she was anti-Communist above all. This in and of itself is not a bad thing. But Israel to her was a pawn, and only worthy of support in relation to Israel’s opposition to the USSR.
She had no faith in God.
How did I know you would be on top of this article, like a fly on shyte.
Same old crap about Germans, Luther, Hitler, and Nazis, always without a shred of documentation.
You never seem to grow out of your eternal Objectivist childhood
Yet Jesus stated to the jews that they were of their father who was a murder from the beginning.
Only those Jews whose behaviour provided evidence of exactly that descent – don’t forget that all of the apostles were Jewish, and many Gentile converts, such as Cornelius and the Ethiopian eunuch, appear to have been Jewish proselytes.
Martin Luthor didn’ start out a Jew Hater but he went insane later in his life. I don’t remember what his condition was but he went full lunatic.
Yes, I heard that too from our great hero, Luther.
It wasn”t only the Jews that Luther. hated. He wanted the Anabaptists hanged as seditionists. He supported the brutal crushing of the Peasamt’s War, 1524-1525.. 100,000 peasants were killed. Luther was an antisemite, but Denmark, a largely Lutheran country, saved most of its Jews from the Nazis.
“Eagle, baker, hen, bread?” WTF? just how insane are lefties?
And “people of color” is a racist slur against the most colorful people in humanity’s history …..whites……….AND THE MOST SUCCESSFUL. Every shade and color of eyes and hair in humanity, unlike the shit brown eyes and mud black hair of every other race. Western Civilization? It didn’t originate in Africa or east Asia.
Greece? Rome? The renaissance? England? America?
Fuck the rest, we’re the best.
Lutheran insanity is no surprise. Martin Luther was a rabid Jew-hater and the vast majority of German Lutherans were crazy for Hitler and the Nazis.
Consistency is a requirement of reason, not of faith. Since Christianity is an invented mystical fantasy you can make it up as you go and amend it as you go.
That’s what religious syncretism is all about, you can throw in the kitchen sink if you want to.
If I were a Jew I would be very careful about trusting Christians.
If I were a Jew I would be very careful about trusting Objectivists. They seem to be products of Randian mind control.
You are consistent though. You hold on to the same German bigotry and stupidity with all the strength of a brainwashed untermenschen.
Ah yes, racking up those downvotes again. Go call your sycophantic friends to give you those astroturf upvotes.
The Christians should be very careful of trusting the satanic Christ killers
That applies to Muslims
See what I mean?
Some Christians believe in one version of the invented mystical fantasy where the Jews are satanic Christ killers.
And other Christians believe in an opposite version of the fantasy where the Jews are NOT the killers of Christ.
Hey, but a fantasy is a fantasy, you can make it up as you go and amend it as you go.
Just like you do each day. Objectivist fantasy is a fantasy, you can make it up as you go and amend it as you need to. Rinse and repeat
Given that Jesus said to Saul on the Damascus road “Why do you persecute me?”, because of Saul’s treatment of Christian disciples, I reckon it’s militant Islam that should be in the frame as Christ killers
If you converted from Randoism to Judaism, and envy was indeed the foremost reason for antisemitism, your conversion would cause a dramatic global decline in antisemitism.
Prove Christianity is an invented mystical fantasy. You can’t.
As a Catholic woman who was married to a Jewish man for almost 30 years I’m very happy he didn’t feel distrustful of Christians. My Catholic upbringing taught me that Judaism was the parent & Catholicism was the child. Much like God was the father & Jesus was the child. Our marriage encompassed both cultures quite easily & we had a successful (opened 3 businesses together) & very happy marriage. Our upbringing, morals & politics were very similar. Jews & Catholics have more in common than some people think.
Trying to figure out why the Evangelical Lutheran Church still uses the word evangelical. They are just the opposite. Someone should ask one of their leaders to explain the Gospel and how a person can be reconciled with God.
There is a newfangled Presbyterian seminary AND a traditional Southern Baptist seminary in this town.
The Presbyterians hate Jews and love the terrorists.
The Southern Baptists have come around over the course of my and my late mother’s lifetimes. The Minister Grady Nutt was ordained there, and he loved Jesus as a Jew…..and also loved humor ((!) (rare)). You can check out the audio of “Does God have a sense of humor?” on YouTube.
I highly recommend it.
I found a link that might work … Or not
I’ll try it out…
All I know is that Pilgrim Lutheran ain’t the Lutheranism I grew up with. These various flavors of ELCA Lutheranism mock God and I can only say “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do”. Because I won’t.
I am not surprised that the Walzing Tampon subscribes to this garbage.
It’s a leftist mouthpiece posing as a church, just as Walz himself is a leftist mouthpiece posing as a patriot.
Excellent summary of the entire sordid mess.
Leftism and socialism come from Christianity.
“The roots of America’s welfare state lie in the Populist-Progressive Era of the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially with the Protestant social gospel movement, which held that Christian ethics and “social justice” should drive public policy, including wealth redistribution, trust-busting, graduated tax rates to punish the rich, cradle-to-grave handouts, and missionary-style imperialistic ventures abroad to spread the faith and make the world “safe for democracy.” The concept of social justice, which jettisoned the idea that we actually earn and deserve what we get in life, was first adopted by the Jesuit Luigi Taparelli in the 1840s, as drawn from the work of St. Thomas Aquinas.” – Richard M. Salsman, “Holy Scripture and the Welfare State”
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Oh….you again. Haven’t you posted this about a million times already. Has it caught on yet?
More silly LennyPuk-off/RichardSalsman.
Objectivism is nothing more than unadulterated God hatred.
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I was downvoted! Sheesh!
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Down-voting is as easy as it is gutless. And it relieves you of that burdensome chore of having to express an idea.
Chris Shugart, you are correct. What you state illustrates the feminization of the Western mind over the past decades where feelings, emotions, and beliefs disengage the brain’s right hemisphere. It’s all yin and no yang.
I blame Facebook. All you have to do is press a button, and your’re considered part of the conversation. It’s turning us into illiterates and we don’t know it.
Cows do taste good, though.
The ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Communists in America) have nothing in common with Missouri or Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Churches – which follow the Bible and rely on insights provided by Martin Luther about salvation by grace alone, the importance of the Word to bring the Holy Spirit to hearers, and the literal truth of Law and Salvation as recorded by the human authors of the Bible. The ELCA is a major recipient of federal funds to support the invasion of America by millions of foreigners, and it agrees with most leftist dogma about the role of the government in the lives of Americans, exactly in opposition to the Ten Commandments. Other than that, the ELCA is just peachy.
Well, at least is wasn’t the Church of Scientology. That would have been a little worse, but not by much.
The late Martin Mull sings of the spiritual possibilities…
Religions are for weaklings and cowards. Who do you think supports all these scum walking across the border? Turn the other cheek and wash some feet and kiss some ass
Might I suggest that you repeat that sentiment to Hamas (having of course inserted the name of the relevant religion in your statement)?
My statement goes for all religions especially the muzzslimes. God is like Santa Clause for adults,an old loving protector. Except he doesn’t protect little kids from pedophiles and disease and doesn’t protect anybody from psychos. It’s all part of his plan, his plan sucks.
I bet my down voters think they are making suck up points to god
ELCA presumably observes the Christian liturgical year = how do they explain the Feast of the Circumcision, if Jesus wasn’t male?
:Black, Indigenous, Immigrant, and other People of Color?” These congregants don ‘t know that millions of immigrants to the U.S. were WHITE? They don’t know that they, themselves, are the descendants of immigrants? They don’t know what Doctor Johnson said about WHITE Americans: “Sir, they are a race of convicts and should be grateful for anything we give them, short of hanging?”