perfidy

Accept for that whole thirty years' war thing, and Luther's anti-semitism and potty mouth.

I can't sleep, and evyone and their brother have linked this, so why the hell not. Here's a link to Iowahak's wonderful lutefisk post. This post made us ponder why we didn't have him on our blogroll. Since we couldn't come up with a definitive answer, we blogrolled him. This post also serves a useful purpose from Newsweak's point of view: it puts the blame on where it belongs, on the rioting fundamentalist loony tunes rather than on the slipshop reporting which has made them famous.

“It is important that we remember that Lutheranism is a religion of peace,” said Army spokesman Maj. Richard Lehrman. “And we need to remember to avoid insensitive behavior and remarks that will cause these peaceful Lutherans to go on another bloody killing rampage.”

I know how true that is. I was raised Lutheran, and not just milquetoast ELCA Lutheran, but Missouri Synod. That's just one step shy of the wahabi fundamentalist equivalent for Lutherans, the Wisconsin Synod.

The last sentence sums up the situation as well as anything I've seen:

“Oh yahh, I tell ya what, dere’s a lotta bad stuff goin’ on in dat outfit over dere,” said a young Decorah cleric who identified himself only as ‘Pastor Doug.’ “I heard dem infidels are switchin’ da prisoner’s Leinies with Schlitz.”

Ja, you betcha.