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Rise of the Neo-Anabaptists

By Alliance Alert

Mark Tooley writing at The American Spectator: "Traditional Anabaptists, such as the Mennonites, foreswore military service and public office while not contesting the civil state's responsibilities, including armed force. But the new neo-Anabaptist movement is more aggressive, demanding that all Christians, and society, including the state, bend to pacifism. Traditional separatism has also compromised, with today's many outspoken neo-Anabaptist voices pushing many insistent political demands that invariably align with the secular left and religious left . . . All these neo-Anabaptists denounce traditional American Christianity for its supposed seduction by American civil religion and ostensible support for the 'empire.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).