“I concur. I am heartily sick of Luther bashing on FR and I lose patience over feeble and vapid rationalizations to do so with impunity.”
It’s 2017 - 500th anniversary of the Protestant Revolution. Get used to it.
“Or are you convinced the Reformation occurred in a vacuum and that committed Lutherans (Missouri Synod) are not worthy of consideration or respect on this forum?”
WELS and CLC would disagree with you about which synod represents “committed Lutherans”. They make LCMS look like Liberals.
“WELS and CLC would disagree with you about which synod represents committed Lutherans. They make LCMS look like Liberals”
They make many Catholics looks like tree worshiping pagans.
Note, I am LCMS not WELS.
One rather enjoyable evening I wandered into a message board where a WELS member and a SSPX member were having a go. I am not sure who won, but they agreed all that didn’t belong to their parish were suspect.