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To: Olog-hai

Aren’t Quakers pacifists, in general?


36 posted on 03/11/2013 11:45:50 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Sure, even going so far as to send a declaration of such to King Charles II of England:
We utterly deny all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatever; this is our testimony to the whole world. The Spirit of Christ by which we are guided is not changeable, so as once to command us from a thing as evil, and again to move unto it; and we certainly know, and testify to the world, that the Spirit of Christ, which leads us into all truth, will never move us to fight and war against any man with outward weapons, neither for the kingdom of Christ, nor for the kingdoms of this world.
Not practical if you are a head of state, though, charged with protecting the rights of the people.
39 posted on 03/11/2013 12:02:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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