on April 4, 2025, 11:50 pm, in reply to "|
Plenty of people have hated the Quakers though. They preserve something of the countercultural strangeness of early Christianity. In a society as class-dominated as Britain, egalitarian behaviour can appear as insolence (‘friend’ is a subversive term of address when it replaces ‘sir’). A suspicion lurks that, as with some other creeds of the English Revolution, disregard for unjust laws and pursuit of the ‘inner light’ might lapse into antinomianism. There is something unsettling about those who refuse to compromise their conscience; the kindly but unyielding commitment of the Quakers can be unnerving. |
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