So let's summarize. Why is American Lutheranism so chaotic and crazy? Because one Prussian king was a masonic nutcase and his successor was a far mystic weirdo; this made religion in Prussia a mess, so the third Prussian king tried to fix it by forcing everyone to violate their beliefs to get along. To rebel against that, a philandering bishop headed off to America and after he got fired his young pastor friend Walther helped establish the LCMS. The LCMS became a lightning rod of conversation and controversy, so a bunch of previous and succeeding Lutheran groups ended up making a bigger mess with a bunch of stupid mergers - the last of which was at the behest of former LCMS theologians/professors. So Lutheranism is chaotic here.