[PCPOET7]

wow I thought the sect was dead because 20 years ago we talked bout the sect in a sociology class and there were only a couple left and the age of the membership was in the 80s....

[dp0622]

The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing...

Their pins and caps must be YUGE.

[lurk]

Shakers had a low birth rate. Below replacement.

But they knew how to shake it. And made decent furniture in calmer moments.

[Ransomed]

I wonder if acceptance of birth control and abortion did them in. Less orphans?

Freegards

[Oztrich Boy]

Rather than building families — the members of the Christian sect don’t even get married — instead, they built communities

Progressives

[Oztrich Boy]

Rather than building families — the members of the Christian sect don’t even get married — instead, they built communities

Progressives

[Persevero]

Well God did instruct us to be fruitful and multiply.

[John S Mosby]

They don’t mate much— and therefore have no “increase” despite exhortations in the Bible to “go forth, be fruitful and multiply”.

Shakers are so “gifted with simplicity”... they forget sex, or tabooed it.

[Defiant]

Let’s hope the same extinction comes soon to scientology and islam.

[Robert DeLong]

That is what the eventual outcome is of a society that is committed to celibacy. 8>)

[Flaming Conservative]

Like your furniture, can’t wrap my head around your theology.

[Rebelbase]

Isn’t there are sect of Shakers around Danville, KY?