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- Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:34 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Mennonite investigator jailed
- Replies: 14
- Views: 589
Re: Mennonite investigator jailed
I was about to add the story, but you beat me to it. :P Here's the Denver Post story: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/27/investigator-jailed-robert-ray-death-penalty-hearing/ While Lindecrantz is spending her second night in jail, the legal drama has been playing since Jan. 20, when Newman first ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:43 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Billy Graham dies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1194
Re: Billy Graham dies
Twitter being Twitter and the Internet being the Internet, there have been some really nasty things written about Billy Graham. Slate columnist Ruth Graham (no relation) reflects on this: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/billy-graham-has-hovered-over-me-my-whole-life-and-not-just-because-i-s...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:58 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: President Trump: A MennoNet Poll
- Replies: 222
- Views: 9510
Re: President Trump: A MennoNet Poll
Just saying “WASHINGTON—Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the “Nunes Memo” could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States.” .. .. https://politics.theo...
- Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:06 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Arkansas law mandating "In God We Trust" in every classroom
- Replies: 8
- Views: 917
Re: Arkansas law mandating "In God We Trust" in every classroom
Here we have been getting ultra-con propoganda in the mail and in our government. As a liberal in a conservative area, I resonate with this. I'm not sure what Temp describes is any worse than the eight years of propaganda about Obama's birth certificate or that he was a secret Muslim terrorist. Bot...
- Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:12 pm
- Forum: MennoLight
- Topic: Why Don't Mennonite Men Hug?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4934
Re: Why Don't Mennonite Men Hug?
I'm a bit late to this conversation, but I wonder if this might not be also generational. Neither set of my conservative Mennonite grandparents were physically affectionate in public or to their children. I remember I once impulsively told my grandparents that I loved them. There was this moment of ...
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:42 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Compensatory violent fantasies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1455
Re: Compensatory violent fantasies
I don't know about the Muensterites being specifically precursors of the Nazis unless you either think of the Nazis as a fanatically religious millenarian movement or of the Muensterites as a racially motivated genocidal movement. What I do see they had in common is an overriding ideological impera...
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Compensatory violent fantasies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1455
Re: Compensatory violent fantasies
I'm happy to share it if I can find it. It's been almost a decadehaithabu wrote: Szdfan, I would be interested in seeing your paper if you would be willing to share it.
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Compensatory violent fantasies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1455
Re: Compensatory violent fantasies
Boot, in seminary I wrote a paper on a piece called "The Blasphemy of Jan of Leyden," which is attributed to Menno Simons. In my research, I did come across the speculation that some of Menno's earliest followers were survivors of Muenster. There's even speculation that one of Menno's brot...
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:32 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: VICE News: "Charlottesville: Race and Terror"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 666
VICE News: "Charlottesville: Race and Terror"
One of the things that has gone viral this past week, is a short documentary by VICE on HBO, which was on the ground in Charlottesville during the "Unite the Right" rally. While the doc focuses on both the white supremacists and the counter-protesters, it mostly features Christopher Cantwe...
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:23 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Errors in moral reasoning
- Replies: 122
- Views: 194946
Re: Errors in moral reasoning
And now because of the moral panic which Charlottesville began, I am afraid that they will be emboldened even more. It is my apprehension that the left in the US will be using Charlottesville as a sort of Reichstag fire issue against conservatives. The Reichstag fire only worked because Hitler was ...