>> One of the UK’s oldest Christian denominations - the Quakers - looks set to extend marriage services to same-sex couples at their yearly meeting later.
They don’t read their Bibles, and they aren’t of Christ, if they remake the Lord in their own image.
Let’s not have any turning cheek jokes now... that would be inappropriate :)
Ahhh, please tell me this is a bad joke? The Quakers?? The world is truly going to H3ll in a hand basket!
Ping!
There are about five branches of the Religious Society of Friends. Some are so conservative that they still wear plain dress and practice plain speech — i.e., “thee” and “thou” for “you” when singular.
Others are pretty far out, as we see above.
This is a wonderful group that contributed valuable concepts to Western culture. But by now many of them seem to be drifting aimlessly on culture’s tide instead of truly listening to the Inner Light.
The group split in the late 1820s and ‘30s over the weight believers should give to the Scripture vs. personal revelation.
My ancestors left the church more than 100 years ago but a lot of their principles echo through the years. For one thing, my Quaker great-great-grandfather ended up in teh Union Army somehow during the Civil War. That would not have gone over with the pacifist tradition.
They would not have stood for gay marriage, for sure. Probably not all of the Friends now will support it. However, they will be sure to talk it to death in trying to reach agreement on an issue where compromise is impossible.
The Friends Church was taken over by Leftists long ago. It allowed them an easy way out of the draft.
I say that as a former Quaker and current Catholic.
Quakers used to be Christian. I don’t consider them Christians now. They’re peace people, but not the Prince of Peace people.
Aw, don't be so hard on them. Those Quakers are just sowing their wild oats ... *snicker*
George Fox would be so against this. He would be outraged and would tell them to their faces.
The Quakers have been deteriorating into just another liberal quasi-Christian denomination for decades. They’re nothing like their predecessors. The Methodists (many) are another example. John Wesley would spend 24 hours a day in sackcloth and ashes if he were here to see what the Wesleyan movement has become.