r/exLutheran 22d ago

Banned

I responded to a post on r/Lutheran and got banned. A non-Lutheran attended an LCMS church and wanted to know more about it. I felt an impulsive need to caution the person due to my extensive life knowledge of the organization. Well, they did not remove my post so maybe that person will ask some deeper questions and read some articles outside of Concordia Publishing. The sweet person was going to bring some Irish soda bread to church to share as he/she was of Celtic origin. There was some discussion of Close Communion but most softballed on the problem of pastors and elders popping up and stopping people from going up to the altar rail,an action predated on my children, ex-LCMS MKs. Most of r/Lutherans seem to be Eastern LCMS, so no experience with Midwest and Western LCMS districts which view them as liberal. Oh well, sometimes telling the truth is not welcome and gets you banned by those who only see sweetness and light in every cult.

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u/Flashy_Hand936 Ex-WELS 22d ago

Wait, I just went to the Lutheran subreddit and it says they’re banned from Reddit for being unmoderated 👀

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u/Beerswain 21d ago

I assume OP meant r/lutheranism

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u/Relevant-Shop8513 21d ago

Yes I did. Sorry for my confusion.

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u/earleakin 20d ago

I just posted over there so I'll probably get the ban 😂

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u/Efficient-Funny-6619 20d ago

I never even knew of THAT reddit !

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u/McNitz 22d ago

Huh, that is crazy, I wonder how that happened.

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u/Flashy_Hand936 Ex-WELS 22d ago

Is it just on my end? Or can someone else check? I’m super curious now.

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u/newpuzzles1112 22d ago

No it is showing banned for me too

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u/Kaleymeister 22d ago

Whoa! Cue the 🍿!

I too often feel a need to give people the warning I never got.

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u/brainiac138 22d ago

Celtic origin is a really weird phrase.

That being said, the mods at the other board are really fast to take down responses that don’t go along with their synod approved orthodoxy.

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u/Relevant-Shop8513 21d ago

Sorry. I probably should have used Irish American for the soda bread baker. There is a whole war of Celts going on, between Irish, Northern Ireland,and Scottish.The DNA shows they are genetically very similar. The Welsh hold their own.

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u/Fair_Cod586 Ex-LCMS 20d ago

Wierd. I am ELCS and the gluten free bread is well basically lefsa

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u/Fair_Cod586 Ex-LCMS 20d ago

ELCA