Robert Watcher
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Mennonite Country
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Mennonite Country
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
These are classic iconic images, Robert! Thanks so much for bringing us such captivating and precious images!
I do not know much about the Mennonites but will now have to study up on them!
I have the idea that they are a self-isolated Christian sect, like the Amish.
Ashef
I do not know much about the Mennonites but will now have to study up on them!
I have the idea that they are a self-isolated Christian sect, like the Amish.
Ashef
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Robert,
Having now read much about the Mennonites and many related sects, I am so impressed that their pacifism seems to me, as one who admires the writings about the New Testament Jesus, that they best represent my concept of the direction such a figure would guide us.
Critical is the unlinking the power connection between religion and state.
To the State that’s a dilemma as the point of organized religion is to be the main cost-saving power instrument of the State.
After all, with one State-supported Priest in each village, nurturing the fear of God in folk, what needs soldiers for that village to “keep the peace”?
Asher
Having now read much about the Mennonites and many related sects, I am so impressed that their pacifism seems to me, as one who admires the writings about the New Testament Jesus, that they best represent my concept of the direction such a figure would guide us.
Critical is the unlinking the power connection between religion and state.
To the State that’s a dilemma as the point of organized religion is to be the main cost-saving power instrument of the State.
After all, with one State-supported Priest in each village, nurturing the fear of God in folk, what needs soldiers for that village to “keep the peace”?
Asher