Talk:Old German Baptist Brethren

message: my dad is german baptist so i can tell if people post untrue thingsReady78 21:27, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Where is the church in Oregon? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.191.17.168 (talk) 20:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oregon? 

message: They are too pacifists.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.151.6.98 (talk) 00:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a soapbox. 66.191.19.150 (talk) 17:16, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: pacifism

message: As the article stands now, there is a sentence that reads "They are not pacifists, however, in the same way as Quakers; although the OGBB is one of the historic Peace Churches."
It begs the question, how is their stance different than that of the Quakers? 66.191.19.150 (talk) 17:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Form of pacificism. 

message: The entire debate surrounding this argument is a semantic one. Within the OGBB churches, an attempt is often made to artificially differentiate their position, which they call 'nonresistance', from 'pacifism', which some OGBBs tend to view as a being a term which describes a "worldly", political position, etc. The OGBB (and Old Brethren, and Dunkard Brethren, etc.) definition of 'pacifism' is idiosyncratic, and the difference they make between these two terms is largely synthetic. One might have a VERY difficult time explaining this to someone raised OGBB, however. Conversely, if a person was not raised OGBB, it will likely be very difficult to understand their unusual way of using these terms. For all intents and purposes, for all who were not raised OGBB, they (and the other Old Order Brethren groups) are indeed pacifists. JMCooper (talk) 06:14, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on "Pacifism" 

message: Developments in the New Conference that occur after the 2009 schism should not be documented on this page since they have seceded from the Old German Baptist Brethren, the group covered by this page. Someone well acquainted with the New Conference should author a separate page on their group.  All references to Annual Meeting Minutes in particular no longer apply to the New Conference. It will be too confusing to continue to describe New Conference developments on the wiki page describing the Old German Baptist Brethren. It would be akin to covering the Church of the Brethren and the Brethren Church on the same page; they are two distinct (albeit related) organizations.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.143.37.173 (talk) 20:53, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Conference 

message: I'm trying learn which factions my former neighbors are in.  (I grew up with their kids in the 60s and 70s, and moved away in the 80s.)  Would it be appropriate to list the congregations that remain in the old conference, and which joined the new?
They were excellent neighbors and their kids were great friends.  I don't believe they are a cult - except according to the correct dictionary definition by which all religions are cults.  Yes, there were a couple of arrogant people attending the church near my house, who would rant about my own religion the way people on this page have been ranting about Old German Baptists, but I'm not about to judge an entire faith group on the basis of a couple of misfits.
Long before reading this page, I had identified the so-called Anti-Cult Movement as one of the worst Mind-Control Cults around.  (In my view, any group that practices bigotry such as that displayed elsewhere on this page is a mind-control cult.) Downstrike (talk) 06:51, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Congregations? 

message: There exist two seperated terms for baptists in German: "Täufer" and "Baptisten", the letter one being closer to the English term Baptists ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A4ufer<ref> and <ref>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptisten) To avoid confusion one should not translate "Täufer" with Baptist(s). Is there any article that clarifies this issue? Or does anybody know how to differentiate more clearly? Jjh1993 (talk) 14:51, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of the term "Täufer" 

message: This article has obviously been written largely by people who have some close connection with the church, and who assume that readers of the article already have an understanding about German Baptist.  The article focuses largely on areas of controversy within the German Baptist community, or makes theological distinctions between German Baptist and other Anabaptist.  However, for most people who were not raised in a German Baptist community, the most distinctive thing about the group is the rejection of modern technologies (cars, tv's, radio, computer, etc) and the plain dress.  
An outsider coming to this article is most likely to want to know what the rules related to technology are.  (I know some of the "rules" but not the details.  I know some German Baptist drive cars and some don't.  I think some have electricity at home, and some don't.  As far as I know none have tv's at home.  I think all are permitted to use at least some forms of technology at work, i.e. they can farm with tractors instead of horse-drawn ploughs).  
I'm not sure what rules there are related to "plain dress".  I know it is more restrictive on women, and that women usually (maybe always?) wear dresses and bonnets.  I'm not sure what the rules are for men.  (Do the men have to wear a beard after marriage?).
There isn't really any talk about children before joining the church.  I know children are given a choice of whether or not to join.  I think most join as teenagers.  If they leave later they are shunned, but those who never join are not shunned.  I might be wrong about this, though.
I think these are the things an outsider coming to this article will be most interested in, but the article doesn't talk about any of these things.  Could anyone who has more knowledge about these things than me address them in the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A000:161B:4092:9097:E49E:98BE:E3FE (talk) 04:44, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technology and plain dress / an outsider's perspective.