Lutheran (EL
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Glory to the Holy Trinity!
Posted on 05/30/2021 6:42:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 251 A.D., a young woman resisted the sexual advances of Quintian, a Roman proconsul. Her resistance cost her a sentence in a local brothel and, eventually, her life. Before she died, she was subjected to tortures that included having her breasts torn off by pinchers. To the end, she refused to give in to the sexual predator who sought to force her to repudiate her Christian faith.
St. Agatha's endurance despite the tortures inflicted on her, including being deprived of one of the chief markers of her femininity, earned her a spot among the numerous Catholic saints who refused to renounce their identity in Christ. She believed that her body was the temple of the Holy Spirit. It was not to be violated by rape and by torture that sought to deprive her of her bodily integrity. She is considered an example to follow.
The tortures visited upon St. Agatha have been visited on women for centuries. Until the 19th century, a "breast ripper," also known as the "Iron Spider," was used to punish women guilty of sexual transgressions. Removing breasts was a way of destroying a woman's sexuality — indeed, her womanhood.
Even today, rituals such as breast ironing and female genital mutilation are a means of eliminating women's identity in order that they become less sexually tempting. Ironically, it is mostly women who inflict such tortures on other women.
In view of the above, it is with great astonishment and anger that both secular and religious women see self-torture as spiritual progress by a branch of the Lutheran church. It is with shock that we see sexual mutilation held up as a positive advance for women — so much so that it is being incorporated into a denomination that once stood for the elevation of women.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Martin Luther himself self-flagellated to the point where brother monks had to put him in restraints.
For those of us who don't care to go to the link but who are paying attention to the (clearing one's throat) ELCA, please tell us more about exactly what they're condoning here in the US, in the year 2021.
TIA
Or did he, in some way, just like being flogged? That's a question.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has not been an evangelical Christian organization for at least a couple decades. It is the largest Lutheran denomination in the US, but it is no longer Christian. The ELCA (in which Megan Rohrer is a Bishop) does NOT believe in the trustworthiness of the Bible, and it shows. They are pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality and all other leftist/liberal causes. By contrast, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is an evangelical Christian denomination that still believes the Bible.
Ping! to an extremely trenchant essay.
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Glory to the Holy Trinity!
Christ is Risen!!!!
Singular human beings who identify as “they” may well house a legion of demons!!!!
When we receive Holy Communion in the Orthodox Church, we do so for “the remission of sins and the healing of soul and body”. Yes, that includes the body! Self-mutilation—or even having the delusion that one is the “wrong sex”— goes against all of that!!!!
Well said !
Leni/MinuteGal (Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod)
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