Hello, from an Openly Autistic Priest

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That definitely reminds me of an acquaintance I had in high school college but we lost track of each other when we both left the state college for seminary after two years. He was a strict Lutheran & said our belief in the final physical resurrection of the living and the dead united us more than he was united to other Protestants who he critiqued mightily for rapture or bodiless heaven for eternity views.

^ The husband of a high school friend of my wife is a Missouri Synod pastor and had part of his theological studies at a Catholic university. There he became familiar with devotional prayers such as the Rosary and the Divine Office. He said the similarities between the Missouri Synod and Roman Catholicism are such that he has entertained the thought of becoming a Catholic priest or if not, he has acknowledged that the idea of doing so is a theoretical possibility for him.

I did have a next door neighbor for about three years who was also a Missouri Synod pastor. He was in no way anti-Catholic, but he seemed less embracing about celebrating the similarities of his faith to Roman Catholicism.