*'''Voluntary Church membership''' & '''Separation of church and state''' - Anabaptists do not believe that the church and government should be linked, and that all who lived should be free to worship at which ever church they wanted. It was typical during the reformation that if a person lived in a [[Catholic]] area that they attended a Catholic church or face persecution, and if they lived in a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] area that they attend a Protestant church or face persecution. | *'''Voluntary Church membership''' & '''Separation of church and state''' - Anabaptists do not believe that the church and government should be linked, and that all who lived should be free to worship at which ever church they wanted. It was typical during the reformation that if a person lived in a [[Catholic]] area that they attended a Catholic church or face persecution, and if they lived in a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] area that they attend a Protestant church or face persecution. |