09-14-2007, 05:09 PM
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Supercalifragilisticexpiali...
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Originally Posted by ILG
For example, I have read that in certain cases where the Amish were being prosecuted for not sending their children to public school or refusing to put the orange triangles on their buggies that they do not fight back and just say that whatever happens is "God's will". They also do not vote. It is a very passive view of our place in the world, I suspect tied in somewhat with the non-resistance view. Many Christians also do this sort of thing in, say, not going to the doctor because they believe God will simply heal them if He wants to. This type of thinking spans all denominations as there are more and less progressive people in every denomination. But, when does a passive view mean avoidance of responsibility? And, on the flip side, when does a very active stand mean a refusal to trust in God's will?
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I see what you are saying. See my prior post to THEO.
As a sidenote; some Amish DO vote and they have also won some landmark legal cases in supreme court.
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