How The Quakers Invented America

bhkad · 12-22-07, 06:48 PM

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How The Quakers Invented America

BY DAVID YOUNT

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David Yount is mysteriously little known to most Friends, but his newspaper column "Amazing Grace" and weekly cable TV program are very widely seen and read. Here he looks at how the Quaker ideals helped shape America in its earliest days and have continued to do so till now. In doing so he also explains and illustrates those Quaker ideals, ideas and history. So this is both a thought provoking commentary on American history and an introduction to Quakerism.

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The word, "Friends" is the word Quakers use when referring to each other, which comes from the formal name of their religion, "Religious Society of Friends".

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Until the start of the eighteenth century, the only organized religion in North Carolina was the Religious Society of Friends…or, The Quakers. Their founding principles of peace, freedom and equality influenced not just the state’s earliest communities, but also our modern nation. Frank Stasio learns about the Quakers from David Yount, author of “How the Quakers Invented America” (Rowman & Littlefield/2007), Max Carter, director of the Guilford College Friends Center and Bill Leonard, dean and professor of church history at Wake Forest University Divinity School.

Listen to the NPR interview with author, David Yount, here.
http://www.wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0904a.mp3/view

When we look closely at the founding of America we don't come away with the impression that secular ideals were at work in the hearts and minds of the founders, we are left with the unquestionable realization that it was Quaker ideals which laid the groundwork of everything great we would become as a fledgling and then a mighty nation.

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This is not only a CHRISTIAN nation, but a Quaker invented nation!

DarkWizard12 · 12-22-07, 06:56 PM

But I thought our nation was invented by smart atheists and secularists that hate God and the bible! So, despite evidence, you are wrong!

bhkad · 12-22-07, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkWizard12

But I thought our nation was invented by smart atheists and secularists that hate God and the bible! So, despite evidence, you are wrong!

Good thing I'm not a knee-jerking liberal or I'd have snapped back at your well conceived sarcasm without thinking!

winston53660 · 12-22-07, 07:10 PM

Nixon was a Quaker.

bhkad · 12-22-07, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by winston53660

Nixon was a Quaker.

Great man. Great president. Too bad about his trying to be loyal to his subordinates. It cost him dearly.

winston53660 · 12-22-07, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

Great man. Great president. Too bad about his trying to be loyal to his subordinates. It cost him dearly.

I uasually give the benefit of the doubt to the Friends. In Nixon's case nuh uh no way, the guy was evil to the core and did everything against the Friends teachings.

bhkad · 12-22-07, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by winston53660

I uasually give the benefit of the doubt to the Friends. In Nixon's case nuh uh no way, the guy was evil to the core and did everything against the Friends teachings.

Nope. You are mistaken. But this thread is not about Nixon. It's about this being a CHRISTIAN, QUAKER INVENTED, NATION.

new coup for you · 12-22-07, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkWizard12

But I thought our nation was invented by smart atheists and secularists that hate God and the bible! So, despite evidence, you are wrong!

Do you know any Quakers? That's a not an unfitting description of them.

bhkad · 12-22-07, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by new coup for you

Do you know any Quakers? That's a not an unfitting description of them.

Yes. And I hear that secular people and atheists are increasingly reading the Bible and speaking in tongues.

new coup for you · 12-22-07, 10:29 PM

Dude Quakers get together and talk about how they hate Bush and feel guilty for being wealthy Eastcoast elite utterly distanced from The Working Man. And let their kids smoke pot.