Former Leader of ELCA Goes Off On Jesus in Sermon, Calling Him ‘Mean’, Troubling, and Even a Little Racist

Last Sunday, former head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Mark Hanson preached a sermon at Elk River Lutheran Church in Elk River, Minnesota, where he went off on Jesus, describing him as mean, cruel, troubling, an advocate of Nimbyism (Not in My Backyard) and quite frankly, even a little racist.

It’s no big surprise, as the (ELCA) is functionally one of the most heretical and demonic denominations in America. It has denigrated to one massive pen for goats, run by spiritual criminals and hirelings, with barely a sheep to be found anywhere. From Planned Parenthood Logo on Clergy Clothes? to Queer ELCA Pastrix Ordained With Drag Queen Nuns While Jennifer Knapp Serenades, some of their ‘greatest hits include:

ELCA Considers Expelling all Conservative, Anti-LGBTQ Pastors from their Midst World’s Grossest Lutheran’ Pastor’ Says More Gross Things About ‘Heteronormative Marriages’ Church Holds’ Pride Worship Service’ Featuring All LGBTQ Songs Woke Church Newsletter Invites Congregants To Help Pay for Abortions and Abortion Pills Pastrix Says Jesus Called Syrophoenician Woman a ‘B*****’ + “Jesus Screwed Up, She Redeems Him”

Recounting the story of the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7, Hanson spends half the sermon condemning and belittling Jesus for how he treated her. He describes Jesus’ behavior towards her as “despicable” and suggests he echoes the same attitude towards her that bad people have towards immigrants and children who are gender-transitioning.

Hanson concludes his sermon by revealing that Jesus eventually relented from his cruelty and “changed his mind, changed his heart, changed his attitude, changed his action.”

This really is a major problem. The Septuagint needs to be studied in Greek and not a modern translation. Maimonides explained the genius in the original Septuagint. Yet, despite Jewish scholars aiding in the translation it was never accepted into synagogues. Around the Third Century BC, the Old Testament was translated into Aramaic as well. During that period few people spoke or read Hebrew. By then the oral traditions that had been written down were thousands of years old.

My daughter and I had this discussion. I told her it is best to go to church but study on your own as well. Some churches do try to avoid dogma and study the word of God as best we understand it. But do not ignore the Torah and other older biblical texts. Even look at early Christian writings like the Nag Hammadi texts. Churches are man made therefore they are as flawed as mankind. They all have dogma to identify and control followers. They all like the men who built them, have the potential to fall into sin. This is very apparent in what we are seeing now. If you question Gods will regarding homosexuals, adultery etc..then look to the ancient texts of the Old Testament. That is all we have to go by. ‘Religious men” have their own opinions and often insert them into the Bible and claim them as Gospel.

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