Check out this short king from the 1700's. He would put a bladder filled with red juice in a bible, stab it, spray the "blood" on slavers and say they'd killed the bible. Dude rocked (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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We can have little a christianity, as a treat

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[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On a skim of the article I didn't see mentioned: he once briefly kidnapped the young son of a slave owner to prove a point about stealing people from their parents. Also he was a pretty decent early feminist. Also he refused to ride horses because they were treated cruelly. And he also didn't eat meat! Dude would've fit in pretty well around here probably.

If anyone wants more cool Quaker content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend

[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

People here would call him an adventurist and say he wasn't doing enough like they did Aaron Bushnell

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Bushnell was an adventurist, though

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Quakers seem to have a pretty decent hit rate when it comes to producing decent people.

I love the PUF! I've always wondered wether the slur "poof" came from the PUF. I know that's an odd thing to bring up, but how often do you get to talk about them?

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

They also had a pretty high hit rate of being the most exploitative and mean factory owners in England which Marx is quite delighted to point out the hypocrisy of. Remember your religion and your professed values don’t make you a good or bad person, your actions do.