The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

In light of John Modene's sermon, I emailed the Sermon Audio link to Jim Bublitz of Old Truth. He just sent me back an article titled Were the Anabaptists Persecuted For Their Faith? It is kind of an article of faith among Arminian Baptist to claim that they are descendents of the Anabaptists and that much of their hatred of Calvinism stems from the alleged persecution of Anabaptists by Magisterial Reformers. This article shows that the truth of that may not be what we have heard so often...read below...

...But these few examples should be sufficient to explain why Anabaptists
were opposed. It was not that they were being persecuted for taking the
Scriptures seriously, but because they were violent revolutionaries subverting
the entire social order and guilty of the deaths of many thousands of innocent
people.

Those who would claim that the Anabaptists have changed dramatically
since that time, should recognise that it is for that very reason therefore
unfair to portray the Reformers as supporting the persecution of poor innocent
Anabaptists, as that is plainly not the case. Yes, the Anabaptists have changed
since. So we should not continue to propagate the false accusation that
Reformers were persecuting pacifist Anabaptists who were seeking to mind their
own business. The Anabaptists that were opposed by the Reformers in the 1520's
and 1530's were violent revolutionaries guilty of abominable atrocities and
abuses.

Pretty thought provoking stuff.