Jesuitical disputes in the 6th.
The following letter from a voter in Forest Lake, Minnesota, appeared recently in the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
I read with great interest the Oct. 28 Blog House that reported that Sixth District U.S. House candidate Michele Bachmann worships at a church affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, which “regards the Roman Catholic papacy as the antichrist.”
I then watched the Sixth District candidates’ debate Saturday evening and heard Bachmann say, when questioned about the Star Tribune item, “my church does not believe that the pope is the antichrist” and “that’s absolutely false.”
Being a voter in the Sixth District with two children enrolled in Catholic school, my curiosity got the better of me so I did some research by visiting the WELS homepage. I was surprised to find that one of the WELS core doctrines does indeed regard the Roman Catholic papacy as the antichrist.
I am thankful for hearing this before casting my vote and know, as a Catholic in the Sixth District, I will not be voting for Michele Bachmann.
I suppose a candidate who says God told her to run for Congress has opened the door to this sort of thing, but I suspect that Bachmann was unaware of this lunatic wrinkle in her sect’s theology–just as I imagine the writer of the above letter is unaware that her own church has never officially repudiated its disgusting ”perpetual wandering theology,” according to which the Jews, as punishment for the crime of killing Jesus Christ, must wander the earth forever without a homeland. And I wonder what our Forest Lake correspondent would say to someone who declared herself opposed to a Roman Catholic candidate solely on account of this insane doctrine–or even on account of the fact that the Vatican to which she and all Catholics owe moral allegiance is this very day sheltering a hideous criminal in the person of Bernard Law, formerly archbishop of the Boston archdiocese, who protected and knowingly enabled god knows how many child rapists in priest’s costume–a man better fit for a jail cell than a cozy church sinecure. I wish nothing but humiliating defeat and political oblivion upon Michele Bachmann and candidates like her all over the country, but I think we can probably let her skate on the pope-as-antichrist business. At any rate you certainly don’t have to get elbow-deep in the doctrinal arcana of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod to find reasons to vote against this woman. If I’ve neglected to mention it before–and pardon me if I have–SHE THINKS GOD TOLD HER TO RUN FOR CONGRESS.
