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by Neto
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:08 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: "God Bless the USA" Bibles - from our Huckster in Chief
Replies: 13
Views: 140

Re: "God Bless the USA" Bibles - from our Huckster in Chief

Neto, I hear your point. I don't critique President Trump for selling gold shoes, NFTs, commemorative coins, university degrees, steak, business attire, bed linens, vitamins, water, or branded apartments, but I do raise an eyebrow at literally combining the founding documents into the Bible and sel...
by Neto
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: "God Bless the USA" Bibles - from our Huckster in Chief
Replies: 13
Views: 140

Re: "God Bless the USA" Bibles - from our Huckster in Chief

I am not defending him, or his tactics, but how is this different than the "Glory to James, King of England" page in the front of every KJV Bible I've ever seen? (Except mine. I removed that page when I was still a teenager. Although I was still a "US Patriot" at that time, it ju...
by Neto
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:31 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: recommendations for cars/suv
Replies: 40
Views: 527

Re: recommendations for cars/suv

insurance companies keep track of mileage, it’s unlikely anyone will fly too far under their radar. :P i have a low annual mileage discount. i’m not close to their line of demarcation. I wish ours did, because I put less than 1,000 miles on one of my vehicles last year. (There is no annual State ve...
by Neto
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:58 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: recommendations for cars/suv
Replies: 40
Views: 527

Re: recommendations for cars/suv

.. and, insurance agent. it can be surprising how different models, years, etc., affect ins premiums. before purchase, i call to ask what i’m getting into, ins-wise. This is good advice. Maybe find two possibilities you really like, then ask your agent to prepare estimates for both. (Doesn't have t...
by Neto
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: recommendations for cars/suv
Replies: 40
Views: 527

Re: recommendations for cars/suv

so what's your recommendation for a good used vehicle? either a 4 door car or an suv, small to mid size and why do you recommend that one? I might turn the question around and start from the other end. First find the person/ shop who will be doing the maintenance and repair and find out which vehic...
by Neto
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:54 am
Forum: Other
Topic: recommendations for cars/suv
Replies: 40
Views: 527

Re: recommendations for cars/suv

it's interesting to me, that very few people have recommended domestic vehicles. i've been hearing a lot of subaru forester, a lot of toyota, a lot of honda. i think that in this thread, neto and ohio jones were the only ones w anything good to say about domestic cars. i liked my malibu, i mean, at...
by Neto
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology
Replies: 23
Views: 708

Re: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology

For someone interested in History, Verduin's "Stepchildren" is foundational in disproving polyorigin theory of Anabaptism. "Polyorigin" is not a familiar term to me, and google eyes couldn't help me out. Could you put that into different words for me? The theory that Anabaptism ...
by Neto
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:26 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology
Replies: 23
Views: 708

Re: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology

If anyone is interested in Verduin's work but also wants something more specific to Anabaptist history, his book The Reformers and Their Stepchildren covers a lot of the same ground as Anatomy of a Hybrid but spends the bulk of its text observing the relationship between the magisterial and radical...
by Neto
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology
Replies: 23
Views: 708

Re: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology

For a treatment on the State church vs pure church discussion, I suggest the book by Leonard Verduin (also the translator for the Menno Simons book version that is direct from Dutch to English), The Anatomy of a Hybrid . I don't agree with all he wrote there, especially in the first chapters, but i...
by Neto
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:46 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Operation Reconquista - Reviving the Mainline Protestant denominations
Replies: 3
Views: 122

Re: Operation Reconquista - Reviving the Mainline Protestant denominations

One thing that puzzles me is that while the small-town or country main-line congregations still sing hymns, many of our Mennonite congregations go for the latest buzz. The lyrics of some of these new songs are OK, others are OK theologically, but are extremely poorly written, with weird wording that...