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.

“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.