The question, of course, is: How many remained Lutheran? Certainly not Steve Jobs. Bruce Willis? Garrison Keillor is now an Episcopalian, if I’m not mistaken. You may as well throw in Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche. It takes a leap of faith to say that Kierkegaard was an orthodox Lutheran. It’s more accurate to say he was just Kierkegaard™, dammit.
The Lutherans Song (with Apologies to Adam Sandler and to Music)
Simul Jocular et Peccator 
Lutheran or not, that was irritating. Are all Lutherans like that?
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Yes — wanna make something of it? Huh? HUH? WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL!
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HHS Secretary and former Kansas Governor Kathleen Sibelius is definitely not Lutheran — she labels herself Catholic; however, with her longtime support for abortion here in Kansas it is questionable as to how devoutly she adheres to that church.
It should be noted that as Governor she was closely allied with the assasinated late-term abortionist George Tiller, who was a Lutheran. He was a member of an ELCA church in Wichita after he was asked to leave his LCMS congregation for obvious reasons.
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St. Olaf was a Lutheran? His bones lie in a Lutheran cathedral, but if you’d tried to sell him on sola scriptura, he’d have tried to cut your head off.
And Garrison Keiller is not a Lutheran. He was raised Plymouth Brethren. People think he’s Lutheran because he makes jokes about us, but he’s talking about Minnesota, for cat’s sake.
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According to Wiki, he left the Brethren and was attending a Lutheran church in New York (probably St. Peter’s in the Citicorp building). He is now an Episc.
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BTK Killer = ELCA congregation president. No word on whether he was asked to leave the congregation.
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I think even Lost and Found are Episcopalian now..
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Jaroslav Pelikan converted to Orthodoxy several years before he passed away.
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Oh of course — the real joke of the video is that virtually no one named in the song is still a Lutheran. Even Luther would have balked at being called a Lutheran. He was an Augustinian …
And welcome, Peter. The STRANGE HERRING staff, board of directors, editorial consultants, and emergency medical team are big fans!
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Delicious irony! I think God laughs at this attempt to impress ourselves over how many big and important people share our confession.
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Anthony, great point re: Luther. I bet he’d just love the deliberate mistranslation of “catholic” into “Christian” in the LSB’s version of the creeds.
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Paul,
Did you catch my rant on FIRST THINGS regarding that translation? http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/07/22/what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name-plenty/
Gene Veith ran with the ball here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/sacramone-on-the-translation-of-the-creed/
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Nice rants. As a RC who swam the Tiber the other way I find “Christian” for “catholic” silly and superstitious.
The word is like a boogeyman. In my first parish — in the midwest — I’d get strange questions about Communion practices (e.g., did Catholics rip up the carpet and burn it when a drop of consecrated wine fell) or about indulgences as if the Pope were Pope Tetzel XXI.
They were amazed that RC and Lutheran Altar Circles do almost exactly the same thing. No burning.
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