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Blessed are those who administer justice, for they shall have justice administered unto them.

Often the lines are drawn with respect to wielding the metaphorical Sword (a literal fire axe may be okay), more than whether the actual employer is the government, UP, UPS, or USPS. Flight attendants aren't armed, don't work for the government, and don't execute capital punishment. There may be oth...

(For an example of Islamic countries very different from that, look at Malaysia and Indonesia, which manage to be pluralistic despite Muslim majorities, don't have endless problems with extremist terrorism, and have functional economies that don't generate large amounts of refugees or economic migr...

Nomad wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2026 9:20 am

mike wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2026 9:18 am Are you an Anabaptist?

Yes.

Please go to the User Control Panel (click on your name at the top right of the page) and update the Affiliation field on the Profile tab. Maybe you are indeed an Alien, but it's helpful to be more descriptive.

By “give no quarter”, I mean I have no room at all for leftist liberal-progressivism in the circles I am part of and have control over, such as church. It is not welcome here and I will do everything I can to keep it out. You don't get to unilaterally decide what's welcome here and what is kept out...

Sure there is. Someone witnesses to a nation (which could be a very small group of people), and everyone decides to be converted. At that moment, the whole nation (which is just a group of people) is converted. Missionaries report an entire village (which is really just an extended family) hearing ...

T1, have you considered that Muslim immigration is under God's control and may be orchestrated by him as part of his plan for all people to find him? To find Christ, one has to come to America first? And you wonder why he has you blocked. :roll: Do not take another's statement and distort it to an ...

MennoSimons1998 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 5:45 pm Also, what is TTB an abbreviation for?

In this context, the Traditional Text Bible and/or its publishers.

JohnH wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2026 4:23 pm ... bachelor/bachelorette parties? There are plain Anabaptists who do this?

Where do you see "plain" in the OP?

Back to the OP, how about those in favor of capital punishment, and its righteousness, be the ones to literally pull the trigger or watch the, presumably live streamed, execution. My guess is, if that were that the case, there would be considerably less support. My random audio playlist fed me a Vo...