[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“Would you vote for a Quaker ~ they have strange beliefs ~ definitely not Christian ones ~”

Are you jesting? If this is a serious comment, I would suggest you know nothing about Quaker or Christian.

[muawiyah]

If you are talking about what happened to Quakers in the American Midwest, where they kept the name and turned into pretty run of the mill, orthodox Christians, you have a point. On the other hand if you are referring to the Camisard tradition, you are really offbase if you think those people (and today's American Friends Service Committee types) are at all Christian.

They are something else.

At one time the Camisards (in France) thought they could destabilize Catholicism in France to the extent that they would no longer be persecuted. In the end they were murdered right along with the Huguenots.

Their English and German counterparts were of the same opinion, and continued to hold to it as they emigrated to Penn's settlements in the 1700s.

BTW, Penn attended the Protestant Academy in Saumur France where he had direct contact with gun-toting Huguenots as well as peace and brotherhood Camisards.

[NathanR]

I voted for Nixon, who was (at least nominally) Quaker.