Report from the Midwest
Posted by Ginny on May 23rd, 2007 (All posts by Ginny)
One of our regular commentors has no idea who Iowahawk is – clearly we owe our readers more than this. He’s the man, the Michael Yon of the Midwest, reporting on the always risky flyover territory. Like Lileks, he sends back reports, embedded in the seething ethnic enclaves. (Of coure if he’s the Michael Yon then Garrison Keillor is the Fisk.) Today, he analyzes a poll of that poorly understood group, the Lutherans.
Although a majority 87% of respondents agreed that “The world should be brought to submission under global Lutheran conquest and eternal perfect rule,” there was a great deal of disagreement on the means to accomplish it. More than 95% supported “pancake breakfasts” “popcorn fundraisers,” but support dropped to less than 80% for “cow tipping” and “T-P’ing infidel houses.” Support dropped even more dramatically for more violent means of conquest, such as “suicide bombing” (28%), “decapitation” (24%), and “running over Presbyterians with my Ski-Doo” (23%)
May 24th, 2007 at 5:17 am
What did people expect? If Lutherans weren’t such wimps, they’d be Catholics.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:11 am
You will all eat lutefisk. Resistance is futile…you will be assimilated!
May 24th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Ralf – from where a Baptist sits, there isn’t any difference between Lutherans and Catholics. ;-)
May 24th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
John,
Kinky Friedman once said, and please understand that I’m just quoting here without necessarily endorsing the statement, that there is nothing wrong with Baptists, they should just be kept under water for longer.
May 24th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Not that a Lutheran or Catholic could keep them down there, of course. :)
May 24th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
As a fellow Iowan (okay, raised in Iowa Iowan), I am so proud to be from the same state as Iowahawk!
*Although, I am a Cyclone, not a Hawkeye. Iowans would get that.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:05 am
I think he meant the Southern Baptists ;-)
Most of us are pretty normal, but most of the fringe elements of Protestantism also come out of either our fold, or the Penecostals, who are bascially Baptists who speak in gibberish, er… in tounges. Yeah, that’s it.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
We would not keep them down, Ralf… we’d just bring them lots of tuna-noodle casserole.
With crumbled potato chips on top.
Yes, tremble before the mighty weapons of the Lutheran pot-luck supper!
May 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Yes, he was referring to the.
Well, at least they have a head start on getting the Book of Revelations.
May 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Sgt Mom:
Killing them with kindness, eh? :)
Care to reconsider that apostasy thing? The Pope and I would be overjoyed to welcome you back to the fold ;)
May 27th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Well… actually, the way that the Catholic church has been going… many of the reforms that Luther was originally after were made over the following 400 years. I believe one of the only main sticking points now is Papal infallibility!
Martin Luther would be thrilled to know that the the Catholic church has finally caught up to him, after that bad patch during the Renaissance.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
He´s only supposed to be infallible when speaking ex cathedra, and the current Pope even has doubts about that. No more excuses! :)
Those were the days, when Popes had ilklegitimate children and made them Cardinals, or were assasinated by jelous husbands!
May 27th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Sorry, “jealous”
May 27th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
There’s damn little to choose between the Lutherans (Missouri Synod) and the Catholics, these days.
Come to us, Ralf… the tuna-noodle casserole is calling! You are powerless to resist! Look to your logical side… and come!
It is your destiny!
(and I may have had two glasses of cheap chablis, but I can still spell!)
May 29th, 2007 at 10:48 am
>blockquote>(and I may have had two glasses of cheap chablis, but I can still spell!)
Now that is just the kind of snide comment I´d expect from a Lutheran! If the Swedes hadn´t intervened, we´d given you lot a good drubbing in the 1620s at the latest. Hmpf!