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We all live by things we believe in but don't understand. How many understand the chemistry of the rubber compounds that keep cars from slipping off the road or the structural engineering of the bridges and buildings we utilize or how the nutrients we ingest build the cells in our bodies or the phy...

Also, I’ve noticed the argument has shifted again. First, the claim was that Iran was using a school as human shields. Now the argument is that children shouldn’t be on military bases at all and soldiers shouldn’t have families. Those are different issues. I don't think families should be raised on...

Also, I’ve noticed the argument has shifted again. First, the claim was that Iran was using a school as human shields. Now the argument is that children shouldn’t be on military bases at all and soldiers shouldn’t have families. Those are different issues. I don't think families should be raised on...

Do you think the families of the 160 girls killed when the US bombed that school would agree with you? Didn’t Trump just threaten to destroy Iranian civilization? Doesn’t Pete Hegseth publicly pray to Jesus to help kill America’s enemies? As has been pointed out here repeatedly, that was a school e...

Off the top of my head, I have no idea. I would thin’ they think so. But since they (and I) are concerned with Sola Scriptura why does that matter? You believe in annulments too. If I put a gun to your head, and tell your daughter I am going to shoot you unless she says “I do” while someone goes th...

I agree with everything written here, but I think the categorization of Mennonites among the worse offenders was based on the actions we took in WW2, not in the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict. What actions did "we" take (as North American Mennonites)? Not fighting in WWII? Organisat...

Another factor that may have contributed is fear or desperation. We are not at our best in terms of care and discernment when we are running away from an enemy. Soviet Communism was a very real enemy but this is not to excuse or deflect but to warn. I have a friend who is called to Jewish evangelis...

From the quotes you provided, it sounds like MCC knew quite a bit, even if they didn’t know how the whole picture. I wonder if it’s similar to when churches and church institutions protect charismatic leaders accused of abuse. There’s a desire not to know. Sometimes institutions fail not because th...

The article mentions the Ukrainian mennonite leadership were suspicious of Candace because the land plot grid on the prairie was against their German culture. Having traveled in Germany by rail a fair amount, one thing you immediately notice is that residences are clustered in villages, sometimes a...

:blah: US intelligence efforts were much less extensive before WW2 than afterward, so it wouldn't surprise me if Unruh was entirely unknown to the US government before the war. I came to this with that idea in mind. However on page 181 of the Neufield-Fast article, I read the following? "By 19...