Posted on 05/23/2007 12:44:03 PM PDT by dighton
Chicago - By an almost two-to-one margin, Midwest Lutherans voiced solid opposition to decapitation, suicide bombing, and chemical warfare in a new comprehensive survey of their social attitudes.
The Pew Research survey, conducted May 13-19, queried nearly 2,500 randomly selected Lutherans at flea markets and convenience stores across the Midwest. Interviews were conducted in High Plains Twang, Great Lakes Nasal and Flat Ohio Valley Bland.
“If there is one headline here, it’s how remarkably moderate the Lutheran community is,” said Pew director Andrew Kohut of the survey, which was co-sponsored by the Council on American-Yooper Relations. “It really paints a picture of a dynamic culture in or somewhere near the American mainstream.”
I do hope your Pastor occasionally gives a good sermon about the ugliness of potluck jealousy, just as the Swede's Pastor seems to have a need to admonish his flock about the evils of potluck pride.
It’s not like there’s a shortage of once fine institutions that have been de-balled. The “nuclear family” was fairly decommissioned through the 60’s and 70’s for better or worse. But prior to that my dad in an ELCA church allowed how he got the third degree from his reverend before he was more or less allowed to marry my mom, grilled for an hour or two. And, he took the “till death do us part” seriously, married for almost 50 years and took care of her for several years during illness prior to passing. The caliber of the individuals that make up the institution are what counts.
You can safely bet that nothing good at all will come from a “survey of social attitudes.
LOL!
I am from the heavy duty German bunch
Maternal grandfather was Polish and unchurched. His mother, however (who lost relatives at Dachau) became a really-active evangelical Lutheran, for some reason (she was, herself, somewhat of a Messianic Jew, but still involved in Protestant life when she got to the US).
Rubbed off on my grandmother (rest well, Orlena), which passed to my mother (who is even more passionate), and eventually the rest of us.
I'm also against that feminazi neutron bomb, known as Evangelical Lutheran Worship.
I'm supporting the Lutheran Strategic Disarmament Plan (LSDP), in which massive numbers of congregations bring every one of their ELWs to their town recycling centers. Every congregation that dumps all their ELWs between now and August gets to send two delegates to the feminazi-heretic "celebration of ELW" in Chicago to stage a demonstration that will make the queer "Goodsoil" look like amateurs!!!!
That is sure a different journey.
I know an ITalian Catholic now a Messianic Jew
“Great Grandma Johnson” likely just picked an LCMS Church because the Pac NW isn’t exactly New York City/Philadelphia when it comes to native Jewry.
We’re all on the same team, at least after the Game is Over. Not for me to decide.
I think LCMS is chosen as they are also old test. and keep it correct which makes those comfortable.
Good Call.
I agree, was trying to be polite"
Too polite to a fault. That must mean you're Missouri Synod, the conservative kind of Lutheran.
Me too.
German - LCMS
is the 1529 portrait, when he was around 45, double portrait with Ms. Bore, by Cranach the elder.
This is another Cranach, from 1520. A bit thinner, but still no looker.
Cranach's 1529 became something of an icon and he painted dozens and dozens of copies, which were turned into bad woodcuts.
He was noted as the best early 16th c. painter at "getting a likeness", so that's probably pretty much what Martin Luther looked like.
Is that their natural habitat? < ducking for cover>
Yes, except they forgot “Dollar Stores”, for entertaining and stuff, you know.
Well, he never looked like a super star!
What is funny is that my old pastor from back home looks like the “old” Luther. Which is funny since his family is Russian.
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