Lutheran (LCMS) Ping!
Be rooted in Christ!
Posted on 11/22/2024 11:31:36 AM PST by Morgana
Prominent Hitler apologist and despiser of all things non-white, Corey J. Mahler, is about to be yet again condemned by his former denomination, with the Iowa District East of the LCMS voting on a resolution to condemn him and his podcast in the upcoming year.
Mahler is a two-bit “theologian” with a few thousand Twitter followers who occasionally gets noticed after one of his particularly offensive tweets goes viral, as well as the co-host of the openly racist podcast Stone Choir. When he’s not posting memes crushing on his beloved Führer, Mahler is giving folks ample evidence of why he’s a sad, sniveling, pitiful, apostate racist who should be marked and avoided, if for little other reason than the unconvincing way he seeks to cosplay as a Christian.
To put a finer point on things, his worldview is indistinguishable from an 11-year-old atheist who just discovered 8chan and spent a weekend free-basing its archives, getting a thrill from the smattering of attention he gets when he says naughty words about Jews and black people. It would be tragic if it weren’t so pathetic and a waste of a life.
Despite claiming to be a Lutheran, he was recently formally excommunicated from his denomination, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) after calling for like-minded white supremacist friends to take it over and remake it in his own Naziesque image and essence, having bizarre delusions of grandeur while caught up in Volkish paganism.
Now, a resolution is reportedly being circulated in the Iowa District East of the LCMS by Rev. Harrison Goodman, an LCMS pastor and Content Executive at Higher Things. The document condemns both Mahler and his little ball of hate co-host @treblewoe, as well as any of their district pastors caught promoting the podcast, saying they should be “brought under discipline by their ecclesiastical supervisor for the offense they cause.”
The resolution reads in part: (full text at end)
WHEREAS, Mahler and “Woe” are not currently active members of any LCMS congregation and are therefore beyond the reach of church discipline; therefore be it:
Resolved, That the Iowa District East in Convention publicly condemn the Stone Choir podcast and its hosts, Corey J. Mahler and “Woe,” for the offense they cause by their public devotion to Adolf Hitler, their stirring up of antipathy toward our Jewish and black neighbors, their denunciation as sin of that which God has not called sin, and their open hostility toward the pastors and leadership of the LCMS; and be it further
Resolved, That the laity of the Iowa East District be warned against the Stone Choir podcast and its hosts, and that the pastors of the Iowa East District be encouraged to admonish members of their congregations whose approval of Stone Choir and its hosts has become known; and be it further
Resolved, That pastors of the Iowa District East who are found to be promoting the Stone Choir podcast or its hosts be brought under discipline by their ecclesiastical supervisor for the offense they cause
Resolved, That the Iowa District East in Convention recognize that the laxness and lukewarmness of the teaching and practice of the LCMS has provided fertile soil for such errors of teaching and wickedness of life as are associated with Stone Choir and its hosts and followers, and that whatever suffering has been inflicted upon the pastors and people of the LCMS through Stone Choir is to be received as a chastisement of God for our sins and as an occasion for heartfelt repentance; and be it finally
Resolved, That the LCMS in convention be memorialized to condemn the Stone Choir podcast and its hosts and followers, to take action against pastors who promote the same, and to repent of the sins for which God has allowed Stone Choir and its followers to arise within the LCMS.
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Makes me wonder what the real story is.
These days, when anyone calls someone a fascist or racist, he loses me.
I’m wondering what this is all about. A lot of times I post this stuff just to see if you all know anything and give your 411.
According to ZipRecruiter, the majority of Lutheran pastors in the United States earn between $42,000 and $57,000 per year, with top earners making around $62,500.
So, why not just fire this bozo?
The LCMS are not exactly woke. If they dislike this guy as a apostate Hitler groupie, then he’s an apostate Hitler groupie.
Almost certainly the case; LCMS avoids the heretical side of any issue, as much as possible. (FD I’m an LCMS elder and church musician)
...”(LCMS) after calling for like-minded white supremacist friends to take it over and remake it...”
Being of the LCMS, I have not heard of Mahler.
Provided what I reproduced above is fact, then members outside of the Iowa East district should quietly agree and let them handle it.
It is consistent within the LCMS to leave such matters as local as possible and trust in our sister congregations decisions regarding ecclesiastic discipline.
Properly, LCMS pastors are not hirelings who can be fired.
They are called to a place by the Holy Spirit.
The LCMS does have some trappings of a hiring system but at the local level, such a call is indeed quite sacrosanct.
That said, the article doesn’t mention Mahler being a “pastor” (ordained and called) but simply a theologian.
We are ALL theologians of sorts.
THIS, however, is quite a revealing statement regarding the “staff” of Protestia:
“is worldview is indistinguishable from an 11-year-old atheist who just discovered 8chan and spent a weekend free-basing its archives, getting a thrill from the smattering of attention he gets when he says naughty words about Jews and black people”
It shows very little knowledge of 4Chan/8Chan and appears to be using the reference as some negative boogie-man.
Be rooted in Christ!
In his defense, Lutherans in Germany happily adopted Nazi bishops in the run up to WWII.
Was raised LCMS. LCMS = Lutheran Church Misery Synod. I thought they went overboard with the “ we are all worthless unrepentant sinners! Please overlook that and forgive us Lord.” It became very negative and unpleasant. Membership has been dropping for years.
This is my district
To get a public excommunication, you have to really earn it. He earned it.
Exactly.
Never heard of him, before, he sounds way out of place, like the Westborough “Baptist” group trying to be “Baptist” without knowing a thing about it.
Not sure why he would ever associate with the LCMS in the first place if those are his views, as we have a long history of good relations with ethnic communities, including helping to found one of if not the first black college after the Civil War.
Maybe since the Westborough Baptist leader assumed room temp the left needs someone else do do political stunts disguised as religion?
He is excommunicated, so he has no church, but he may be continuing to use the name and title. Our pastors do not draw their wages from the LCMS, the local congregation votes on and pays their wages through a member vote.
Sounds like he is funding himself through the podcast.
Yeah no LCMS says that. They do acknowledge that they are poor miserable sinners, and confess those sins and flee for refuge to God's infinite mercy. First thing LCMS does after the opening hymn. We are then forgiven.
Because God is merciful and just forgiving our sin because of His Son Jesus Christ. 1John 1:9.
The branch of Lutherans who founded the LCMS left Germany long before WW2 and have ZERO history under the third Reich as those left behind did. We left around 1848 after the German revolution and founded the LCMS in Missouri because the effort by the German government to merge Evangelical Lutherans with the Reformed as a state church was intolerable. LCMS Lutherans joined the war effort against the Nazis and Japanese; earlier, in WW1 LCMS churches mostly dropped even their German language services. There were no LCMS Nazis because the LCMS predates them and is an American church.
Even back in Nazi Germany the state sanctioned church split due to the Nazis using a church election to make their move and install their man at the top. Some thought the fad would pass, like RINOS think Marxism will pass, and hoped to hang on and keep a low profile until it blew over. But others saw the writing on the wall when the Nazis took over the Bethel home for the handicapped (remember the first victims were the disabled, not the jews) and when the Nazi plants moved to dismiss the number of high profile pastors of Jewish descent. That is one of the reasons Bonhoeffer and others who weren’t going along began meeting in secret.
Another was the Nazi desecration of the stars with Hitler’s portrait, etc.
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