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I am amazed! This is probably the first branch of Western spirituality, that is not incompatible with anarchism. Inclusive, nonhierarchical, and radical af - antiwar, anti-slavery and anti-discrimination.

Some of us understand “God” as a symbol of human values and some of us avoid the concept while accepting it as significant to others. We differ greatly in our religious experience and in the meaning we give religious terms.

We are not a pressure group trying to move Quakerism toward nontheism. We bless what our theist brothers and sisters bring to Quaker meetings and worship. All Friends have much to learn from each other. We hope to strengthen the Quaker tradition of welcoming people of diverse religious experience and to show by example that this can include nontheists.

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Montana Magpie
Montana Magpie
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— Quakerism as a whole is not inclusive and nonhierarchical. Only the liberal branch — approximately 15% of the whole — is like that.
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8Petros [Signal: Petros.63]
8Petros [Signal: Petros.63]
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Oh, didn't know. Thank you for the head-up. Luckily, it seems that the groups in Poland are within those 15%. There is even Polish "universalist group" mentioned on their main (Polish) websit. It bades well.
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Olaf Radicke
Olaf Radicke
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@SeumanOtwal Presumably it depends on how you understand salvation and how you evaluate suffering in the world, what idea you have of God. If you think of the God of the New and Old Testament as part of the Church, there is, of course, a Herachte. But not among people.
@Montana Magpie
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Montana Magpie
Montana Magpie
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@olaf_radicke — In Friends United Meeting (FUM), which is the pastoral, Methodist-like branch of our Society; in Evangelical Friends International (EFI), which is the evangelical-Protestant-like branch; and in Ohio Yearly Meeting, which is the most Conservative of the Conservative yearly meetings, there is an administrative body composed of human beings that can, and sometimes does, disown those who break the rules — kicks them out of membership. This has happened in FUM and EFI in very recent years, and in Ohio in my early adulthood.
@Olaf Radicke
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