Are you now or have you ever been a Lutheran?

I’ve frequently discussed my dislike of religiously ignorant reporters playing theological “gotcha” with political candidates. Sometimes I will be sitting in church and listening to a sermon and just imagining how completely and thoroughly a reporter might miss the point, the context, the tradition, the nuance, the proper distinction of the Law and the Gospel, etc.

Almost always I’ve written about my dislike of reporters trying to understand the significance of some snippet of a sermon or a bulletin insert when it comes to President Barack Obama. But we have a doozie — and yes, you can all stop sending it in now — with Joshua Green’s piece in The Atlantic titled:

Michele Bachmann’s Church Says The Pope Is The Antichrist

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