Anabaptists Quotes
Sins punishable by death included blasphemy, seditious language, scolding one's parents, adultery, lewd conduct, backbiting, spreading scandal, and even complaining. Persons of marriageable age were ordered to marry; unmarried women had to accept the first man to ask them.
This appears to be one of the first religious groups to withdraw and separate from a state church.
He had whipped the crowd up into a feverish pitch until someone rushed the bound and tied blacksmith and stabbed him to death. He had only criticized Mathias for being too harsh and stern a leader.
The Anabaptists under January Matthys became Europe’s first communists sharing property equally and first and then making property communal. Other religious groups followed the communal property lead.
The goods to which he was referring were those that had been confiscated from all the town’s Lutherans and Roman Catholics who had been ethnically cleansed in a day. See {613804} and {613869}. He soon moved to communal ownership of all property. See {613869}.
The Confession was a statement of doctrine to which the Swiss Anabaptists adopted.
Official List of groups which were prohibited from religiously criticizing the Catholic Church—the established church of Maryland. One interesting observation is that the Jesuits—a Catholic order were on this list. Catholic orders did not then subject their representatives to the authority of the local bishops and took direction only from the Pope. In the case of the Jesuits at the time, there were many who believed the Jesuits were beyond the de facto control of the Papacy and some Jesuits thought they should be—thus the two designations of Jesuits. This makes clear the fundamental intolerance that was common on many parts of Colonial America, that criticism of and heresy to the Established Church was not to be permitted. To the orthodox Catholics of Maryland, they were as concerned with the potential criticisms of Catholic Jesuits as they were with those of Puritans or Anabaptists. Compare Maryland, a Catholic colony with a huge antipathy towards Puritans, with Massachusetts, a Puritan Colony, and its strong antipathy and intolerance for Catholics. It is almost impossible to imagine a union of the American colonies without a 1st Amendment.
Anabaptists from all over Germany and Europe had been called with their arms to Munster, where whey gained control of the city, and then by force began to expel all the Catholics and pressure the Protests to be re-Baptized and join the Anabaptists. Some did to keep their homes and property. However Mathias, with this quotation, became as bad as the Roman Catholic Church had been regarding the killing of dissenters. His logic is exactly the same as that of the Catholics and the Protestants who were killing the Anabaptists.
