Two very interesting articles this morning: one, a reactionary take on the the author's perception of a rise in (and dangers of) "Neo-Anabaptism" and the second, a response by a Mennonite writer that both affirms the correct points and corrects/nuances the off-kilter points of the first article:
1) Tooley, Mark. "Mennonite Takeover." The American Spectator.
2) Good, Sheldon (Asst. Editor, Mennonite Weekly Review). "Are Mennonites Taking over The World?" The Huffington Post.
Mr. Tooley's article seems to me to be an incident of "echo chamber" journalism; repeating a biased claim, which gets repeated by those of like-mind and having been overheard is repeated again without anyone having checked the veracity or origin of the original claim.
The irony is that if Mr. Tooley would engage in further reading (assuming he's had some cursory engagement) of Anabaptist writings he, as the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, would find that modern democracy owes a debt of gratitude to the Anabaptist resistance to the power of coercive government.
