Lookup what happened in Ukraine in 1569-1600s and try to play the persecuted card again...
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Anabaptists and Modern Baptists can differ quite a bit. Sometimes I think we had more in common with Menno Simmons. There were radicalists, but mostly Anabaptists were seperatists. And Anabaptists WERE persecuted. Muenster, for example, was not typical of Anabaptist Behavior.