The Quakers are right. We don’t need God | Simon Jenkins
The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance as it makes some feel uncomfortable. This is the new religiosity
The Quakers are clearly on to something. At their annual get-together this weekend they are reportedly thinking of dropping God from their “guidance to meetings”. The reason, said one of them, is because the term “makes some Quakers feel uncomfortable”. Atheists, according to a Birmingham University academic, comprise a rising 14% of professed Quakers, while a full...
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May 04, 2018 06:28AM
I found the article interesting, years ago I took an online quiz to match me up with the faith that was closest to my beliefs and it was Quaker. I admire Simon Jenkins writing and have his book on England's best houses (I hope to see some of them on my next visit). I do have one criticism and it is a common one. The use of the title "Princess" for Lady Diana is a common error in the American press but I expected a British writer to get it right. From my perspective, there can only be three points of view on this. 1. Follow the existing protocol, which styles the late former Princess of Wales as Lady Diana. 2. All that protocol and titles are a pile of clap trap in which case she would be Diana Spencer or 3. We can just make up anything we want in which case I would like to be known as the Countess of Berry Mills, Duchess of Westmoreland and Defender of the Faithless, but you can call me Your Most Esteemed Highness
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