[redgolum]

Rev. Martin E. Marty, Lutheran theologian, associate editor of the Christian Century and a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago;

Never heard of that guy, but I can bet he is NOT one of the orthodox Lutherans.

Hey, if you can keep him on that side of the Tiber, we would appreciate it! /Sarcasm

[BlackElk]

Martin Marty is the head of the left-wing of Lutheranism, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America aka ELCA. As a general proposition, one may assume that if there is an earthquake anywhere near Luther's grave, that will be proof that Luther has heard of Martin Marty and his ilk. Whatever we Catholics may have against Luther, he should not suffer guilt by association with a dishonest left-wing squishball poseur like Martin Marty (Marty squared?).

The Lutheran Church's Missouri Synod and Wisconsin Synod are among the very few remaining actually Lutheran churches here in the US. Disagree with them though we may and do as to numerous matters of theology, we can, as actual Catholics salute the heroism of their Christianity in these essentially Godless times. Like Westminster Presbyterians, hard-line Southern Baptists, Good News Methodists, various Anglican groups resisting the ECUSA nest of leftist agendaed bishops including Vicki Gene the New Hampshire Queen, and many Evangelicals and Pentecostals burning with love for the Lord, those Missouri and Wisconsin synods are fighting in the armies of the Lord against the secular evils besetting our civilization. We should not allow our relatively few differences to be so magnified as to negate the broad areas on which we agree.

It is these good and decent and Christian Protestants who will figuratively encamp on the other side of the Tiber to resist encroachment by the "NaCR pseudo-Catholic" types as well as the various other Universalist and Kumbaya morally relativist virus carriers posing as Christian.