What a travesty this truly is; military service and attaboys from his pals are “mitigating factors.”  This loon tried to murder a man in front of his family (although the gunner claimed it was a “warning shot”), and he ends up serving four months and taking “anger-mangagement training.”

Maybe the whacko who shot up Ft. Hood, killing 13 people, will experience a lighter sentence due to his military service.

— from @light_writer: “Guess the 3G is pretty spotty, fell off around Beaver Lake.”

Perhaps where people live—from colder climes to equatorial regions—has something to do with the most appropriate, efficient, optimum, healthy diet.

I lived above the Arctic Circle for ten years, and I assure you that a vegetarian would freeze to death up there.  Meat is absolutely necessary to keep up one’s body temperature and energy in sub-zero weather, no matter how warmly dressed you are.  The traditional Inuit Eskimos, by the way, are the ultimate meat-eaters, and they have little to no problem with cholesterol or high blood pressure because of the volume of seal oil they consume.

I cannot imagine, though, eating anything but a “Mediterranean” diet in warmer places.  Here in WNC, I feel much better when my diet varies widely from one season to another, taking advantage of seasonal, local foods.

Yes travelah, Mennonites are indeed conservatives, and some that I have known personally are very liberal as well, because those things are not always in contradiction with one another. What doesn’t exist are Mennonites who agree with right-wing assertions about the merits of violence and great wealth.

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Thanks Will for the heads up…it’s happenin’ on my end of the street too.

“To apply it as condemning of wealth is a groundless assertion and rather ignorant (expectantly so).”

Once again travelah you have managed to cross the threshold into full-blown absurdity. It is groundless and ignorant to point out the fact that Jesus saying that it is impossible for wealthy people to get into heaven is a condemnation of wealth? Seriously are you brain damaged or just slow?

Jesus condemned wealth over and over and over again!.

Direct quote:

“You cannot serve God and wealth.”  ~Matthew 6.24

Game. Set. Match.

You have lost the argument travelah. There is no room in Christianity for pride, so just get over it and move on already.

As an aside, the Mennonite communitites are some of the more conservative envangelicals in Christendom however they are not generally considered fundamentalists because many of them, in particular their more conservative members, avoid divisive politics.

The very same Mennonites who believe He will cast you into an eternal lake of fire ... yeah, those Mennonites. Now, of course you might argue otherwise, but Anabaptists are generally in agreement with most of the same soteriology as myself.

Oxford is comprised of several colleges and universities, neither of which is the preeminent theology department of the planet. There are some noted theologians who have come out those schools but few of late. N.T. Wright is a notable product of the Oxford community.
The understanding and application of the passage and phrase in question has been debated far longer than you have been out of your diapers and there is no authoritarian source that settles the matter. There are sustaning arguments for several understandings of source of the phrase. To make such blanket statements as you have in this thread is nothing short of empty bravado. To apply it as condemning of wealth is a groundless assertion and rather ignorant (expectantly so).

travelah, you mean the same Mennonites that believe that Jesus was a hardcore pacifist, and hence bleeding heart liberal? The same Mennonites that forego any sign of wealth in the name of Christ? Having had lived among Mennonites for several years, I find this especially amusing. You are nothing if not entertaining.