Student losing hope to “hypocrisy”
Monday, November 30th, 2009
© Pretty Good Lutherans
A junior high student told me last weekend that he wasn’t going to sing any Christmas songs this year.
All the well-wishing and overtures about ”peace on Earth” come across as false sentiments to him.
“All people do at my church is argue and fight,” he said.
They’re arguing over gay clergy and whether to stay in the ELCA.
“It’s all my parents talk about,” he said.
Pretty Good Lutherans agreed not to publish the student’s name. He’s a minor. One of his parents is a pastor. And, as the student said in a dramatic fashion, “Are you kidding me? I would be in soooooo much trouble!”
In his mind, the grownups at church are acting like children — calling one another names, using the Bible as a weapon, refusing to see or hear Christ in people who don’t share their understanding of human sexuality.
The following individuals are known murder victims with ELCA ties killed since Pretty Good Lutherans was started in September 2009: