Recently the Lutheran church, Missouri Synod, under the “leadership” of one Matthew Harrison has begun to reveal a decline that has doubtless been long in the making. As in so many denominations the Missouri Synod has been afflicted with creeping Marxism. One of the issues that has come to the fore in the denomination is some variant of Kinism. Kinists have been routed out of the denomination with the wildest controversies coming to the fore. All of this is a small part of the rise of Corey Mahler and his controversial Stone Choir podcasts.
In light of all that I thought a quote from the legendary Lutheran, Walter Maier would be of interest. It is clear from this paragraph that the Lutheranism of Matthew Harrison (who has mixed race grandchildren) would not allow Walter Maier to be ordained in the Lutheran – Missouri Synod denomination.
After a paragraph long description of the marriage of a (white) Seattle girl to the Maharajah of Indore complete with a description of the steps she went through in order to convert to Hinduism, old Lutheran stalwart Walter Maier (1893-1950) wrote in his book “For Better, Not For Worse;
‘Intermarriage between members of races that are not kindred is generally condemned by medical, sanitary, and eugenic authorities; so that the right policy in nations which include many different races is not fusion or blending or amalgamation, but a separate, parallel development of each race, acting in concord with the other races, but each preserving through many generations its own bodily and mental characteristics.
As evident as these principles are, however, we cannot be unmindful of recent efforts to overstep racial bounds. We believe that the Commission on Church and Racial relationships, maintained by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, has on occasion gone out of its way to encourage interracial marriages. This may be seen from statement in Information Service (published by the Department of Research and Education of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America) of November 13, 1926. Referring to the widely heralded Olivet Conference of that year, which was devoted ‘largely to the relation of Negroes and whites,’ this bulletin asserted; ‘Dr. George Haynes of the Federal Council presented the problem and illuminated with his very extensive knowledge every discussion of the week…. Nor was the question of intermarriage evaded. That was considered at length. It was felt that some pioneer spirits should take advanced steps in that direction…. After the discussion on intermarriage the group concluded that, if the individuals concerned fully realize the difficulties involved, mixed marriages may be highly desirable.’
In the furtherance of its own program, Communism has ardently encouraged interracial marriages; and this enthusiasm has colored the preaching and practice at some of our radical youth gatherings. For instance, an eye and ear witness at the American Youth Congress at Detroit brings this picture of the social mixing: ‘I cannot refrain from saying, simply and positively, that the most shocking thing I saw in connection with the Detroit Youth Conference was the social mixing of boy and girls of the black and white races…. While Clarence Hathaway expounded the doctrine of Communism, not three seats removed from me a white girl clung to the arm of, and openly petted with, one of the blackest sons of Africa I have ever sen. This was not an isolated circumstance.’
This is yet another example of thousands of quotes from our Church fathers that demonstrate that Kinism was the assumed position of the Church until the civil rights revolution. Of course all of this was percolating before as the quote above demonstrates but the real rush of Matthew Harrison type thinking began in earnest somewhat after WW II.
Can it really be the case that all our fathers were wrong on this subject and that we are now reduced to having to believe the low intellects like Matthew Harrison and other ecclesiastical Alienists? Has truth changed from one generation to another?