LCMS District To Vote on Resolution Condemning Stone Choir+ Pastors Who Promote Them
Prominent Hitler apologist and despiser of all things non-white, Corey J. Mahler, is about to be yet again condemned by his former denomination, with the Iowa District East of the LCMS voting on a resolution to condemn him and his podcast in the upcoming year.
Mahler is a two-bit “theologian” with a few thousand Twitter followers who occasionally gets noticed after one of his particularly offensive tweets goes viral, as well as the co-host of the openly racist podcast Stone Choir. When he’s not posting memes crushing on his beloved Führer, Mahler is giving folks ample evidence of why he’s a sad, sniveling, pitiful, apostate racist who should be marked and avoided, if for little other reason than the unconvincing way he seeks to cosplay as a Christian.
To put a finer point on things, his worldview is indistinguishable from an 11-year-old atheist who just discovered 8chan and spent a weekend free-basing its archives, getting a thrill from the smattering of attention he gets when he says naughty words about Jews and black people. It would be tragic if it weren’t so pathetic and a waste of a life.
Despite claiming to be a Lutheran, he was recently formally excommunicated from his denomination, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) after calling for like-minded white supremacist friends to take it over and remake it in his own Naziesque image and essence, having bizarre delusions of grandeur while caught up in Volkish paganism.
Now, a resolution is reportedly being circulated in the Iowa District East of the LCMS by Rev. Harrison Goodman, an LCMS pastor and Content Executive at Higher Things. The document condemns both Mahler and his little ball of hate co-host @treblewoe, as well as any of their district pastors caught promoting the podcast, saying they should be “brought under discipline by their ecclesiastical supervisor for the offense they cause.”
The resolution reads in part: (full text at end)
WHEREAS, Mahler and “Woe” are not currently active members of any LCMS congregation and are therefore beyond the reach of church discipline; therefore be it:
Resolved, That the Iowa District East in Convention publicly condemn the Stone Choir podcast and its hosts, Corey J. Mahler and “Woe,” for the offense they cause by their public devotion to Adolf Hitler, their stirring up of antipathy toward our Jewish and black neighbors, their denunciation as sin of that which God has not called sin, and their open hostility toward the pastors and leadership of the LCMS; and be it further
Resolved, That the laity of the Iowa East District be warned against the Stone Choir podcast and its hosts, and that the pastors of the Iowa East District be encouraged to admonish members of their congregations whose approval of Stone Choir and its hosts has become known; and be it further
Resolved, That pastors of the Iowa District East who are found to be promoting the Stone Choir podcast or its hosts be brought under discipline by their ecclesiastical supervisor for the offense they cause
Resolved, That the Iowa District East in Convention recognize that the laxness and lukewarmness of the teaching and practice of the LCMS has provided fertile soil for such errors of teaching and wickedness of life as are associated with Stone Choir and its hosts and followers, and that whatever suffering has been inflicted upon the pastors and people of the LCMS through Stone Choir is to be received as a chastisement of God for our sins and as an occasion for heartfelt repentance; and be it finally
Resolved, That the LCMS in convention be memorialized to condemn the Stone Choir podcast and its hosts and followers, to take action against pastors who promote the same, and to repent of the sins for which God has allowed Stone Choir and its followers to arise within the LCMS.
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“… to repent of the sins for which God has allowed Stone Choir and its followers to arise within the LCMS.”
That statement there deserves considerable attention. To ask the questions we should be asking such as, what has allowed this, what has precipitated it, how did this happen, remembering that sin comes from the wickedness of the heart (Mark 7:21-23).
These “stone choir” boys wrongly conflate things that are not sin, such as skin color and ethnicity, with things that are sin, such as homosexuality and transvestism. But so does the “anti-racist”, “anti-fascist” critical theory “woke” crowd. Both put skin color and ethnicity in the same category as abominable sin. The wickedness in the heart of both is essentially the same. And deep down, they’re both trying to fight wickedness with more wickedness, darkness with more darkness, sin with more sin. Back and forth, recompensing evil for evil, and so it escalates and worsens. They’re both selling the same snake oil.
This is why language such as ” … their denunciation as sin of that which God has not called sin”, and a call to not stray from scripture, is very important. And it is good that it was included in the document. A better resolution might be to condemn the wickedness of both “sides”, and the compulsion to conflate that which is sin with that which is not. I.e., to also condemn the failure to call things sin which God has called sin. Both are feeding the same evil, feeding off of one another. They’re two sides of the same coin. Those who, with the appearance of compassion, pity, caring, and love go around saying ” [something-something]] … blacks and gays … [something-something]” are every bit as wicked as these loons praising hitler, who do the same. It’s the same wicked conflation.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here. Most everybody already sees and understands the wickedness of the heart that is at the root of the problem. But it doesn’t hurt to repeat it. And full disclaimer, I have trouble keeping track of all the churches and denominations that have gone apostate. And I can’t remember whether or not LCMS is one of them. Just commenting on the resolution in question.
Both “sides” of it essentially reject the Gospel. Their wrongful conflation is the result of not caring about what God says is sinful or not, because in their heart, they do not believe sin is the problem, and by extension, don’t really believe that Jesus is the solution. Deep down they’ve rejected the Gospel. They do not truly believe in their heart. (And there are many scriptures that talk about that – not just saying you believe, but actually believing in your heat)
Both “sides” will also twist and contort the scripture in pretty much the same manner. And while there may be thousands of possible causes and effects, and who knows what going on in their minds and hearts, we don’t need to over-analyze. All we need to do is shine a light in that darkness. To rightly divide the Word.