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nd yet the LCMS has a rather substantial presence there.

Got their doctrine there or the same old same old?

Seems they (or at least their social media manager) is spending more time propping up an “inclusive” image on social media than they’re devoting to providing useful opinion

Social media guy doesn't write those papers. So is your issue that they use Facebook?

None of which, BTW, explains the discrepancies between CPH’s edition of Luther’s “Jews and Their Lies” and earlier translations.

Like what?

Quite the lumpy carpet. It’s like they didn’t agree with Jefferson that “Truth is great and will prevail” or something!

Jefferson himself didn't agree with that himself. He cut out the parts of the Bible he didn't agree with. 'Truth' is found in scripture something to which the LCMS clings.

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>>Jefferson himself didn't agree with that himself.

 

Baloney.  The 1st Amendment further codifies the thinking Jefferson articulated in the Virginia act.

 

 

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

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 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=truth%20is%20great%20and%20will%20prevail%20if%20left%20to%20herself

 

[HLPhat]

>>So is your issue that they use Facebook?

More with the way they use Facebook. There was an interview with their Social Media manager in which he was rather proud of how he could manipulate the visibility of comments without alerting the contributors to the fact they were being censored.

That was an entirely different attitude from the teachers I had from 1972 through 1987 who openly discussed all relevant topics.

Sadly those teachers were never informed, or taught, about the issues and writings relating to Luther’s Antisemitism.

Otherwise I believe they would’ve honestly discussed it in the context of the history of WWII (since history class generally came right after 1st period religion).

Also, I took the same History courses - at the same College where those teachers studied. So did my wife who was an LCMS teacher for 25+ years.

We were both kind of shocked at what had been deliberately, apparently, left out of the curriculum at ALL levels of education.