tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29860408.post3610983616444002117..comments2023-11-26T10:01:30.540-06:00Comments on Barnabas File: Paying Our DebtsBarnabas Filehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03635912195437033251noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29860408.post-17357769978647192422010-06-23T07:06:45.392-05:002010-06-23T07:06:45.392-05:00The pastor who spoke at the meeting indicated that...The pastor who spoke at the meeting indicated that he was misquoted. Here is what he intended to say:<br /><br />"I would submit to you that we have a duty here at home to understand thoroughly the nature, the intent, the funding of any group that is being invited into our community under that general banner (of Islam)."<br /><br />Given the time that the Muslims have been involved in this community and the current presence of an Islamic center here, his comment still seems to miss the mark.Barnabas Filehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635912195437033251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29860408.post-42764302809759822772010-06-18T13:28:40.570-05:002010-06-18T13:28:40.570-05:00Thomas Helwys,early English Baptist, stood for fre...Thomas Helwys,early English Baptist, stood for freedom for all people in the early 1600s: “Let them be heretics, Turks, Jews, <br />or whatsoever, it appertaines not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.” <br />George Truett, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, stood before the Baptist World <br />Alliance in 1939 and declared, “Baptists make this contention, not only for themselves, but as <br />well, for all others—for Protestants of all denominations, for Romanists, for Jews, for Quakers, for Turks, for Pagans, for all men everywhere.”David C. Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00349444051930108783noreply@blogger.com