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To: HiTech RedNeck

First not all Lutherans are in the same denomination, so the abuse you describe may be in one particular or several but not all denominations.

The more important difference between the Lutherans and RCC is that the Lutheran churches, when this stuff is discovered, are able to remove their pastors at the church level by the Elders and/or the Congregation, and turn the matter over to law enforcement. There is no church hierarchy that exists like the RCC’s that had an unofficial policy of shuffling and hiding abusive priests and not involving law enforcement. Lutherans get rid of those that do this and have the power at the Congregational level to do that. The RCC historically has not, the bishops and archbishops have moved them around in their archdioceses and not told the places that were getting abusive priests what they were getting.

I know, I was in a church that got one of these guys and the senior priest in charge was never told. He began abusing boys while he was there, several wound up committing suicide because they were messed up from it. The abusive priest was Dan Burns, up in Sheboygan WI. One of the few who wound up in jail for awhile.


278 posted on 03/30/2010 10:09:03 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“The more important difference between the Lutherans and RCC is that the Lutheran churches, when this stuff is discovered, are able to remove their pastors at the church level by the Elders and/or the Congregation.”

I presume you aren’t referring to the ECLA? They call themselves Lutheran. At least the Catholics aren’t blessing sodomy as equal to marriage.

Why should we regard Lutherans as followers of Christ when they explicitly reject Christ’s teachings?


285 posted on 03/30/2010 11:08:02 AM PDT by BenKenobi ("we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be")
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