Anabaptists - 1525 - Following the path paved by the
Protestant Reforms the Anabaptists pushed for further reformation of
church doctrine. Anabaptists tended to be peasants and working
poor. The Anabaptists believed in adult baptism, rather than
infant baptism, taking the approach that all believers were baptized
into the church of their own accord and thus were conferred with the
same rights and privileges. The Anabaptists attempted to live in
accordance with early villages described in the New Testament, they
organized democratic communities where each and every believer was
seen as sharing the same rights. Further, the Anabaptists believed
in secular government, they refused to hold political office or bear
arms.
religious
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