Mennonites are not Christian? What do they believe?
I've let some of my bitterness about being raised in the Mennonite faith seep through and into my post. Maybe I shouldn't have.
Mennonites do believe as most Christians do that the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ, and with his forgiveness. They also believe in adult baptism. And the (seemingly) most important thing is pacifism. Young men were (are) brought up to believe they should register as conscientious objectors. I came of age when the Vietnam war was raging, and only escaped the draft because my number didn't come up. Some refuse to pay the portion of tax they figure goes to support the military.
Only after I moved away from our Mennonite town (age 35) did I begin to see how impractical the Mennonite stand on the use of force is in a world that is governed by the use of force.
The Mennonites opposed US involvement in WWII (yeah, try and reconcile THAT in light of Pearl Harbor) and I imagine they opposed invading Iraq.
Opposing wars that will liberate enslaved and tortured people. Figure that out...........in order the be a good Christian Mennonite (something that seems to be an oxymoron) you need to oppose the very thing that will finally put a stop to people being thrown into shredders. How is that Christian?
That's where my line about no longer being a Mennonite once I became a Christian came from.