Quakers are pacifists, which means christian people who don’t like war and refuse to partake in it and who want peace. Don’t get Quakers mistaken for Amish, Anabaptist, Shakers, or Puritans, because they are none of those. 1 The Amish are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss Anabaptist origins. 2 Anabaptist are Christians who believe that baptism is valid only when the candidate confesses his or her faith in Christ and wants to be baptized. 3 The Shakers are the United society of people who believed in Christ’s second appearance, they are called the shakers because they are a lot like the Quakers. 4 Puritans are people who wanted to “purify” the England church of it’s catholic practices.

 

A lot of quakers were jailed for blasphemy, which means speaking badly in public about god or sacred things. The first quaker was George Fox, and as a Quaker he wanted peace, religious freedom, participatory worship, business integrity and social justice.5 Quaker schools are called friends schools, which are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends (Q

uakers).6 There are still Quaker schools today. We hope you enjoyed this article and learned a lot of interesting facts about Quakers.

 

1: http://www.quakerinfo.org/index

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6:http://www.quakerinfo.org/index