The shared center — held across the tradition
Baptize believers, not babies.
The church is entered by choice — a confession no infant can make.
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Church and state must part.
The voluntary congregation owes Caesar taxes, not worship — a heresy in 1525, a constitution now.
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Do not resist evil with the sword.
Nonresistance taken literally: Anabaptists have died rather than kill in every century since.
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