tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12449722.post111814223962524608..comments2023-11-02T09:15:14.899-04:00Comments on Shellfish: Faithful prevail in Virginia despite HansonCetaceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09053214636263576330noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12449722.post-1118237207835248072005-06-08T09:26:00.000-04:002005-06-08T09:26:00.000-04:00Hi there. I have stopped by a few times. Like what...Hi there. I have stopped by a few times. Like what I read. I am with you guys. I am an ordained ELCA pastor, and along with others we will fight the fight, until there is nothing left to defend.<BR/><BR/>You may want to know that the Eastern North Dakota Synod voted down the Sexuality Study as well and passed Dissenting option One, which demanded faithfulness to Scripture and enforcement of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12449722.post-1118200243269529832005-06-07T23:10:00.000-04:002005-06-07T23:10:00.000-04:00Shrimp here: Thanks for your comments fellows. Let...Shrimp here: Thanks for your comments fellows. Let me say in a partial answer to you, Jeff, that I do not know how things are going to turn out. Really don't. And I'll quit as soon as God removes this from me. Until then I think I'll do just like Chris and fight the insanity as a way to stay sane. <BR/>I may be totally crazy, but I think the penduluum is going to swing back our way, but will Shrimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13215479322209029361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12449722.post-1118158311776723712005-06-07T11:31:00.000-04:002005-06-07T11:31:00.000-04:00I came to your blog via a link from "Midwest Conse...I came to your blog via a link from "Midwest Conservative Journal" where Chris Johnson is chronicling the same situation in the ECUSA. I read you every day, but have not posted before. I was a life-long Lutheran (originally Missouri synod), who got into the ELCA because of the lack of Missouri churches here in southwestern Virginia. After having a sex scandal at our church with one pastor and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12449722.post-1118153548324015832005-06-07T10:12:00.000-04:002005-06-07T10:12:00.000-04:00When all else fails, start dropping F-bombs. "F" f...When all else fails, start dropping F-bombs. "F" for fundementalism of course. <BR/><BR/>I think they really believe it. They have to. It is the big, evil, "they" out there that keeps the confusionists as the poor persecuted minority. Which is the template in which the confusionists need to operate. You can't get a good civil rights buzz going if you don't see yourself as the persecuted minority.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12449722.post-1118153012924699612005-06-07T10:03:00.000-04:002005-06-07T10:03:00.000-04:00What planet is Hanson living on! A "culture so do...What planet is Hanson living on! A "culture so dominated by fundamentalism"? If anything, our culture seems to be dominated by every -ism there is contrary to not only the best of fundamentalism, but Christianity in general.<BR/><BR/>He speaks with both sides of his mouth: calls for conversation despite our differences and, in affect, turns to "bad-mouthing" those who are willing to stand firm Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com