Its almost humorous to look back at the early persectutions of the Quakers in England by these other "faithful" servants of God's state religion, such profusion of confusion over such minutae as wearing hats. (was always about self rule, ownership & control of land, saving souls was always a veneer)
It might be noted in the early 1600s, Quakers were some of the largest slave holders too, who could talk to Jesus better than the other, but really the threat was over control of land & sovereignity, economics, slavery was purely about economics, the need for labor.
******Later when everyone's gotten fatter & wealthy,secure in control of their properties, then the morality comes!!
Why the Puritans persecuted Quakers
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Those Quakers were not meek and mild innocents who just wanted to talk. They were as righteous a group of zealots as most Puritans, and when they entered a Massachusetts town they tried to wreak maximum havoc: bursting into church services, yelling in the streets, banging pots and pans together, and even stripping off their clothes (to show their lack of attachment to worldly things). The Puritans reacted with vehement rejection, and submitted Quakers who would not heed the warnings to leave and never return to terrible punishments. Boring holes through their tongues was just one of these. |
