Not: Bir tartışmayı kazanmak ya da kaybetmek, kabul ya da reddedilmek şahsi kimliğin doğruluğunun veya değerinin kanıtı değil. İnsan kusurlu, hatalı olabilir, zavallı bir sanatkâr ya da yalnızca cahil olabilir - ama bu insanın mevcut insani kimliğinin asıl değerinin, geçmişin, şimdinin ve geleceğin göstergesi değildir!
Anabaptists rejected the swearing of oaths because of Jesus’ clear commandment in the Sermon on the Mount: “Do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven . . . or by the earth . . . or by Jerusalem” (Matt. 5:34–35).
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In the aftermath of Munster, the dispirited Anabaptists of the Lower Rhine area gained new heart through the ministry of Menno Simons (c. 1496–1561). Although always in great personal danger, Menno, a former priest, traveled widely to visit the scattered Anabaptist groups of northern Europe. Although Menno was not the founder of the movement, most of the descendants of the Anabaptists are to this day called Mennonite.
In one important respect Zwingli followed the Bible even more stringently than did Luther. The Wittenberger would allow whatever the Bible did not prohibit; Zwingli rejected whatever the Bible did not prescribe. For this reason the Reformation in Zurich tended to strip away more traditional symbols of the Roman church: candles, statues, organ and choir music, and pictures. Later, in England, this spirit was called Puritanism.
"I don't think anything's wrong with him, sir," he'd said, carefully. "I just think he's not—" Happy, he nearly said. But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? He couldn't remember being a child and being able to define happiness: there was only misery, or fear, and the absence of misery or fear, and the latter state was all he had needed or wanted. "I think he's shy," he finished.
