WELS pastors are sharing Stone Choir content, and you're blackpilling?
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(Update 29/08/2025) Dear John, don't worry, I also got an email asking similar questions.
A "black pill" is a metaphorical term referring to views that lead to fatalism and nihilism. If all I ever posted was Woke in the WELS, I'd be "black pilling" people on the WELS, presenting a nihil(heh)-istic view of Synod.
The Stone Choir is a podcast run by Corey J Mahler and Woe. I listen to episodes here and there as they pique my interest, and I find them to be solid on content and enjoyable in dialogue. They have quite the following on Twitter - mostly lay, but you'll find a few pastors as well, but they also have a number of LCMS pastors that are increasingly adversarial.
You see Corey and Woe were LCMS laymen. It's easy to find information about Corey's rather public excommunication online. They are both persona non grata for what you might call "race realism", that is, recognizing that races are real and that gifts are not equally distributed among them. This is enough to ingrate them among most LCMS (and likely WELS) circles, but there is an element of "shock jock" to them in their twitter interactions that cements the image.
So what I'm saying, then, is that a WELS pastor, ostensibly unaware of the Stone Choir's reputation, posts their content - content that I think is theologically accurate and rigorous, and thus "good" - and this is the opposite of a "black pill", that is, I find it encouraging that we are engaging with ideas and not personalities.
(And if I have to explain the meme, it was probably a flop on my part.)
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(Update 30/08/2025) Dear Caleb, wherein have I "promoted" Corey J Mahler? I clearly delineated that Corey has been excommunicated, the reasons for his excommunication, and the nature of his twitter communiqué.
I have suggested that some episodes of their podcast may be edifying, in the same manner perhaps that reading some Bonhoeffer may be edifying (despite the fact he denied verbal inspiration, inerrancy and the resurrection). Most of the great men of the twentieth century, by this standard, should be dismissed.
Guilt-by-association is a cheap trick.
Would you kindly clarify? I'm a bit older and not contextually adept. What exactly is being referred by designating "Stone Choir content" and black-pilling?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that this blog here is promoting the absolute insanity and unscriptural drivel of Corey Mahler is reason number one why people shouldn't take this blog seriously. It is a repository of those with extreme views with the idea that if someone has been excluded from the Overton window of confessional Lutheranism, they must be correct. I pity all those influenced by blogs of this nature.
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