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by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Political office
Replies: 58
Views: 944

Re: Political office

But we should. The right thing to do would be to not deliver pornography to people's mailboxes. I am very disturbed by this point of view that it's OK to do immoral things as long as an employer is telling you to do it. So I assume you could not work as a postal carrier. And presumably not as a UPS...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: God Bless the USA" Bibles
Replies: 98
Views: 5477

Re: God Bless the USA" Bibles

I wonder how upset some of the posters on MennoNet who display such righteous indigniation about this would be if Biden were promoting/selling Bibles. Quick, divert attention away from the Kingdom of God and reframe it in terms of polarized political enmities! Quick, invite speculation about things...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Political office
Replies: 58
Views: 944

Re: Political office

I think there are conservative Anabaptists who work for the public school system? How do they reconcile this with a mostly Sattler perspective? I assume they do not lead anyone in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. My refusal to do so really upset my supervising teacher back in the day ... I'm mostly ...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:34 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Political office
Replies: 58
Views: 944

Re: Political office

I think GPT softened Sattler on this. Here's a quote that gives more of a feel for how strong and black-and-white he was on this: https://courses.washington.edu/hist112/SCHLEITHEIM%20CONFESSION%20OF%20FAITH.htm Fourth. On separation of the saved : A separation shall be made from the evil and from th...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Political office
Replies: 58
Views: 944

Re: Political office

More liberal groups, such as MCUSA, probably allow or encourage people to be involved in influential government positions as long as their proximity to the violence of the state is indirect and not direct. So they might serve a function as a public servant or on a legislator, but would not serve as...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Political office
Replies: 58
Views: 944

Re: Political office

I am also baffled why delivering prescriptions to people in very remote rural areas requires also delivering pornography to people’s houses. The two don’t seem connected at all. In the context of working as a mail carrier for the USPS, yes, one requires the other, if both are being delivered. Becau...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: God Bless the USA" Bibles
Replies: 98
Views: 5477

Re: God Bless the USA" Bibles

ohio jones wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:05 pm My favorite part is at 2:35: "I'm gonna rare back and tell you something...."

Good to hear a Church of God pastor saying this.
Excellent video all around, though. Spot on.
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 443

Re: Charlotte Shootout

More GPT to describe the way things are currently done: How Warrants are Served with Potentially Dangerous Suspects Yes, warrants generally need to be served in person. The process of serving a warrant involves law enforcement officers presenting the warrant to the individual named in the document, ...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 443

Re: Charlotte Shootout

Possibly so. But governments all over the world are trying a variety of ways to handle criminals and other social ills. Those who discover a better, but previously unconventional way of going about things, are not generally those who are defending the older way of doing things. My suggestion may no...
by Bootstrap
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Charlotte Shootout
Replies: 17
Views: 443

Re: Charlotte Shootout

Ernie wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:31 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68925453

4 Officers killed.
I'm really sorry that their lives needed to end this way. I wish there was much less evil in the world.
I agree. This feels kind of close to home for me.

Evil is not a new thing.