What on earth is this?
Now, look: I'm from Minnesota, OK? I've lived in this amalgamation of winter and road construction bordering on 16 years. Born in Jamaica, Queens, New York and moved when I was 4.
There's one thing I know for sure about this state and that's that there's a LOT of Lutherans. Every town, at least here in the metropolitan area, has at least one Lutheran church. The next town over, where my parish is, has three. Granted, one of them is the much more conservative Lutheran branch, but still.
They're good people. Knew a lot in high school, since the general rule of thumb is that if your last name was Scandinavian, Finnish included, you were probably Lutheran. There's just one problem...
The whole religion was started by an angry heretic German priest 500 years ago. Martin Luther saw inconsistencies with the Catholic doctrine and broke off, citing his ideas. None of them make any sense and include ideas like "Faith alone will save" or "The Bible alone is sufficient".
There is no point for the Catholic Church to reconcile with heresy. The Lutheran religion, simply put, is heresy. It contradicts with all the faith teaches. If individual Lutherans want to convert, then Deo gratias, good for them. But right now it makes zero sense for the religion Jesus founded to ever try to come to terms with its rebel. Sometimes, I think that if Martin Luther hadn't put himself into schism, there would be no John Calvin, Wesley, King Henry or any one of the 32,000 denominations that would erupt into chaos at the tip of a hat.
Oh, well.
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