Become Quaker. You can experience the inner light of Christ.
So why your denomination and not the Fundamental Southern Baptist Church of Arkansas?
>>18496464Because I've had a direct vision of God's light through prayerful, quiet, meditation, and this light is mentioned in scripture (John 1:9 for example)
>>18496471Woops means this >>18496482 for you
>>18496464Yeah what i would ask is if quakerism has the vocabulary and logos to describe and communicate this light with written symbols and that is where quakerism does rush up to the abyss and where the quaker instrument breaks in the light of the lsd mushroom psychedelic vision and needs new wings to sail up to those visionary heights again once or twice or three times
There are like 350K quakers WORLDWIDE today. And this is strange because they created like half the Anglo banks. I refuse to believe their numbers dropped because of Nixon
>>18496464Classical Quakerism seemed pretty alright. But pretty much all modern Quaker congregations are just generic social-justice woke churches. This just goes to show that normies need clear rules laid out in religion, or else they'll end up mistaking contemporaneous values for divinely sanctioned ones. Sadly, just telling people to seek Christ within themselves doesn't work for 98% of the population.
I'd consider it if there were any conservative Friends around me, but I'll stick with the Mennonites.>>18496471I was raised Fundamentalist Baptist, but they're not very good at following the Sermon on the Mount:>Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.>Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.>You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
>>18497071>I refuse to believe their numbers dropped because of NixonWasn't it just because they had almost no rules and they didn't care about evangelizing?
>>18497155>almost no rulesIt was because they had too many rules and were far harsher when it came to enforcing church discipline.
>>18497071To be honest I don't think they ever had a significant presence (as a %) among the mainline Protestant sects outside some regional strongholds like Pennsylvania.
>>18497214What punishable rules did they have besides pacifism?
>>18496464>No sex ever You'd think the incels here would be all over this like flies on shit.
>>18496464If Jesus wanted me to be with him he wouldn't have sent me here.
>>18498784Those were the Shakers. Quakers are entirely different.Shakers>believed their founder Ann Lee was God>remained celibate for their entire lives>lived and worked in common purse societiesQuakers, at least traditionally>renounced all participation in war>had no ordained members>all services were improvised with anyone being allowed to stand up and say what they wanted (women included)>didn't have water baptism ceremonies (Christians should be baptized with God all the time)>didn't have the Lord's Supper (Christians should be in communion with God all the time)
