For no reason:
Evangelical Lutherans = Tim Walz
Evangelical [Anything Else] = Mike Pence
ELCA is not a weird splinter sect filled with demons and heretics - it's the mainline church.
I do love the way the Quazies are going after Lutherans though. Genius. 🤭
This is all cracking me up, TBF. Two of my closest friends are MN ELCA Lutherans and the jokes about the Missouri Synod are flying.
That said - what is the difference between a religion and a cult?
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A sense of humor. If there are no inside jokes about your religion, you are a cult.
Example (from same friends):
Soon after Anders and Sonja were married, he was in a shipwreck and castaway on an island alone. Sonja searched every day and finally found him after months of searching.
Rather than jump in and head home, Anders wanted to show what he had done first - a serviceable house, garden, and even a small chapel.
Sonja, impressed at his industriousness asked about the last building...
"Oh, that's my former church." 😉
@Cosmichomicide Yup, ELCA are the nice ones - sadly, no one gives the mainline much air anymore (and some of that lands at their own feet) in the face of the noisy "here's who to hate" set....
@Cosmichomicide uh, no. Lutherans get no cred.