I Know He’s Lutheran but He’s OK … He’s With Us

Every once in a blue moon you’ll find compatriots you never would have expected. Here is a Lutheran who is a race realist. He sounds alarmingly like me at certain points. He does say some stupid things like (paraphrasing) “if anybody thinks that Christ did not die for all men, that is evil.” But you expect that out of the mouth of a Lutheran. Just disregard that and listen to his race realism. Listen to who he quotes from Lutheran history. Listen to the fact that he cites contemporary Lutherans who agree with him. This is a marvelous lecture because it demonstrates again both that history is on our side and that we are not alone.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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  1. Walther is not a contemporary Lutheran. He’s the founding theologian of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and he died in the late 19th century after writing an essay called “Humanism and Slavery”, opposing abolitionism, and then near the end of his life gave a series of lectures against “Communism and Socialism.” Sadly our church has been unable to speak clearly about race more or less since the 60’s. However, many late gen-x and younger Missouri Synod pastors have been privately discussing these questions for at least a decade, and this talk is perhaps a fruit of these discussions. I don’t know to what extent our views overlap with “kinism”.

    The “CTCR” is the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations, which gives theological opinions on behalf of the LCMS. “Fort Wayne” and “St. Louis” are the two seminaries of the LCMS. The minority report he is quoting from was written decades ago, before wokeism, and indicates the extent to which conservatives generally used to be able to say obvious things without being called racist. Unfortunately I would say that minority report is an outlier in discussions on race in the LCMS since the 60’s.

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