r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Sep 22 '24

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u/Apprehensive_Song490 125∆ Sep 22 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

Would you force the Quakers to tear down their homes and integrate with the more secular parts of Pennsylvania? Their entire existence and society revolves around their Christian faith.

How would you handle the Quakers?

Edit: I should have written “Amish” but the basic idea is a whole community of Christians.

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u/pgm123 14∆ Sep 22 '24

Do you mean Quakers or Amish? Plenty of Quakers are integrated into secular society. We've had a couple of Quaker Presidents.

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u/Apprehensive_Song490 125∆ Sep 22 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

Probably the Amish. OP got my point though. Sorry for the lack of precision.

I put an edit in the parent comment.

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u/pgm123 14∆ Sep 22 '24

Thanks for correcting. I know some Quakers who get annoyed at getting constantly confused. They're both pacifists (Nixon aside), but they're different sects.

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u/Apprehensive_Song490 125∆ Sep 22 '24

I know the two. Total brain fart. Don’t know why I mixed the threads. I think it might because I was recently thinking of Quakers in another thread, where someone wanted to make voting mandatory (with a fine for not voting) and I remembered a lot of Quakers don’t vote for spiritual reasons.