Thoughts on Quakers?

Thoughts on Quakers?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    proto-communists that founded big capitalist companies

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do modern Quakers still say "thou" and dress in old-fashioned clothing?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, all while challenging your gender roles

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good oats

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      smiles

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fun fact: The country with the largest Quaker population today is Kenya, with over 100,000 members.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what went wrong?

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The ones you see in the east coast and in England are essentially at this point no longer Christian, and are a declining minority of Quakers world wide.

    The vast vast majority of friends are actually almost indistinguishable from regular evangelical churches. Think Nixon and hoover, they aren’t pacifists.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They reject baptism and all ordinances/sacraments because they believe those only applied to the Apostolic church. Since then they believe Jesus is with his Church spiritually now instead of sacramentally.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Another strange protestant group

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the quakers are actually those islameo israelites, fathers of the united states' amerimutts

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Quaker here.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Franklin was not Quaker

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I always saw them as pretty irrelevant among all denominations tbh

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not enough hierarchy.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Many casual observers of the American colonial period are of a mind that Benjamin Franklin was born in Philadelphia. In actuality, he was born in Boston in 1706, and fled a harsh apprenticeship in printing (at the hands of his older brother James!) in 1723, settling in Philadelphia with forged release papers from his ongoing Boston apprenticeship. But from the time he settled in Philadelphia throughout his long life, he would cross paths with the Quakers on a daily basis henceforth. Contrary to somewhat common misconception, Franklin was not himself a Quaker, but held a lifelong affection for this Christian sect.

    The Society of Friends, or “Quakers” traces its origins to the time after the English civil war in the mid- 17th century, when various “dissenting sects” separated from the Church of England, such as Puritans, Pilgrims, and others. George Fox had a vision of Jesus telling him that he could have a personal relationship with God without the mediation of clergy, and from that time on, he preached in Great Britain that simple contemplation would encourage Christ into the hearts of the faithful. Brought before magistrates for blasphemy, Fox encouraged his judges to “tremble and quake in the presence of the Lord”, and in mocking him, the judges called him a “Quaker.”

    Like so many other mocking names (“Christian”, “Lutheran”, “Lollard”, “Yankee”, just to name a few), Fox and his followers quickly adopted the term. One of his devotees, a dissenting Protestant Quaker named William Penn, encouraged King Charles II of England to settle a debt to his father by chartering a colony in British North America that would encourage universal religious toleration. This colony would be named “Pennsylvania” (silva from the Latin for “forest”, thus “Penn’s forest”).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      gem

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Quaker here.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Make me a granola bar, gay.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The most unfiltered form of religion. Almost the libertarians of religion

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