Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, by Aric Mcbay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen. Seven Stories Press, 560 pages. In early August 2012, a large Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California was hit by an explosion and fire, disrupting production of as much as 240,000 barrels a day. About two weeks later, at … Continue reading A Plan For World Holocaust Disguised as a “Green” Revolution
Some thoughts on Quaker musician Jon Watts and his interview in the Fifth Month issue of Friends Journal . . . .
In its May issue, Friends Journal published a sloppy, unprofessional article on Quaker membership trends that does a major disservice to its readers and Friends generally. (Not online when this was posted.) Here are key quotes from the article, which is an interview with FWCC US staff: In North America, FWCC has reported a decrease … Continue reading Bogus Baloney On Quaker “Growth” From FWCC and Friends Journal
I Several years ago, two plain Friends from Ohio Conservative Yearly Meeting (OYM) visited North Carolina Yearly Meeting Conservative (NCYMC). I believe one of them was Seth Hinshaw, who is now their YM Clerk, along with a woman companion. They came bearing a proposal that they wished NCYMC to receive and endorse. In it was … Continue reading Drawing Lines, Crossing Lines: Separations Among Friends, and Particularly in Indiana. Or: It Couldn’t Happen Here, Right? Right??
arly Friends lacked a Testimony on Equality with the outside world because, to speak plainly, they (the Friends) were quite sure that those outside were NOT their equals.
A striking example of this is found deep in the famous 1660 Letter to King Charles II, from Fox and a dozen or so other leading Quakers — the one which announced what we now call the “Peace Testimony.”
In a part of the letter which does not get quoted on meeting house wall posters, Fox & Co. explain to the king, “for your soul’s good,” why he should avoid persecuting the Quakers. It was not merely because they were peaceable folk, innocent of plotting his overthrow; but more important, because to do so would mean he was fooling with “the babes of Christ, which he [Christ] hath in his hand, which he [Christ] cares for as the apple of his eye; neither seek to destroy the heritage of God . . . .”
And here we have early Quaker theology in a nutshell: Friends were God’s chosen people, “the apple of his eye.” In the Bible, the counterpart is referred to as a “royal seed.” Maybe the Friends were not destined to rule the world outwardly, sitting on actual thrones; but surely they were commissioned to show it the true way to what the Lord had in mind, and they needed to be able to do the Lord’s work unhampered.
So were Quakers “equal” to other humans, even the king? Not hardly; none of this lot came anywhere near their level as “the heritage of God.”