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    The Quakers nearly died out because they disapproved of even sex for procreation.

    Tbh it’s a real shame they have this weird hang up about the idea because they’re otherwise the best kind of Christians.

    Takes they’ve been historically based af about:

    Anti-monarchists Abolitionists Public education Prison Reform Pacifism (personally don’t agree but we’d certainly be in a better place if more people did)

    Etc etc etc, literally, find an issue about something and they’re probably on the right side of it.

    (Unless their names are Hoover and Nixon)

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      I wish violence didn’t solve everything, the world would be a much easier place to live in. But brutes only speak the language of violence.

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        Maybe less weird once you remember it also talks up everything else they were against, like slavery and heirarchies. They seem, on the whole, to value the words of Christ as depicted by the Bible much more than the ramblings of people claiming to be Peter or the random rules of desert tribesmen.