I POSTED ON TIME WITHOUT ANYBODY TELLING ME TO I'M RESPONSIBLE

SO THERE ARE THESE GUYS NAMED THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC im dumb ill stop uh

the society of friends are i think more commonly known as the Quakers

and they followed this guy named George Fox

His name is Fox now

SO HE GREW UP IN ENGLAND ABOUT THE TIME OLIVE WAS CHILLIN OUT

so fox didn’t like hypocrites

you know

hypocrites like some of the puritans

BECAUSE A LOT OF THE PURITANS WERE CHRISTIANS ON THE OUTSIDE BUT NOT THE INSIDE WHICH IS LIKE THE ENTIRE POINT

nice job puritans yay

HE CALLED THESE GUYS “PROFESSORS” BECAUSE HE SAID THAT THEY WOULD DO ONE THING AND THEN THEY GET ALL “LOLNOPE”

so he started going around england trying to find some cool Christians

and people were like “calm down bro just get married or smoke or something”

and he was like “NO”

so he kinda totally turned over to God

ok

And he started believing that God was talking to him???

ok

SO HE KINDA HAD A CRAZY CONVERSION EXPIRENCE THING

ok

AND EVEN THOUGH HE WASN’T EXACTLY TRAINED TO BE A PASTOR HE DIDN’T REALLY CARE

ok

well thats pretty cool i guess

HE LIKED TO KEEP THINGS PRETTY SIMPLE

which i guess is pretty cool too

HE GOT HIMSELF A MEETING HOUSE THING AND THERE WEREN’T REALLY FORMAL SERVICES.

OR PRIESTS.

OR ANYTHING

ok

THESE GUYS WERE THE QUAKERS

ok

A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKED HIM BECAUSE THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR WAS LIKE “BRAAAAAW” RIGHT NOW

thats a good reason to like someone

AND IN 1660 ABOUT 50,000 WERE QUAKERS. ER, FRIENDS. WHATEVER.

fox was pretty humble still

ok that’s actually pretty cool because obvious reasons

NOW NOT EVERYONE REALLY LIKED GEORGE

BECAUSE GEORGE DIDN’T LIKE THEM I GUESS?

whenever he ran into these people he was beaten and pushed down stairs

i warned you about the stairs bro i told you dog

ok i’m sorry nobody gets my jokes anyway sigh

A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE REALLY OFFENDED

BECAUSE HE DIDN’T LIKE TO TIP HIS HAT AT PEOPLE.

BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW????

BUT THEY WERE REALLY REALLY OFFENDED THEY WERE LIKE “DUDE LOVE ME” “NO IT’S AGAINST MY RELIGION” “LOOVE MEEE” “GO AWAY” “WITHOUT LOVE I WILL DIE” “GET OUT”

ok

SO EVENTUALLY GUY ENDED UP IN PRISON????

BECAUSE HE DIDN’T TIP HIS HAT TO PEOPLE?????

SEEMS LEGIT

THE QUAKERS WERE ALSO PERSECUTED

nice job everyone

BUT EVERYONE WAS KINDA SCARED THAT THE QUAKERS WERE GOING TO TRY TO OVERTHROW OLIVE

but they really weren’t going to because he was like politics what are politics thats dumb

OLIVE STARTED PERSECUTING THE QUAKERS BECAUSE HE WAS A GENIUS

HE FOUGHT FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. YOU KNOW. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT JUST LIKE HIM.

and fox was like “uh excuse me what is this”

ok

SO FOX DECIDED HE’D GO OVER TO MERICUH

and he did

IN 1677

AND ONE OF HIS BUDDIES WAS NAMED WILLIAM PENN

HAVE YOU HEARD OF HIM

YOU HAVE NOW. WE’LL TALK ABOUT HIM LATER.

so eventually fox went back to england

AND HE GOT THROWN INTO PRISON

AGAIN

AND SO DID HIS WIFE

oh he got married ok

SO HE WROTE SOME STUFF AND THEN HE WAS LET OUT YAY

so eventually the quakers were accepted with the Act of Toleration, which released most of them from prison and let them worship kinda sorta?????

OK

THEY OPENED SOME SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS

THAT’S NICE

AND IN 1691 THERE WERE ABOUT 100,000 QUAKERS

OK

THEN

THEN I GUESS HE DIED

AND THE QUAKERS LIVED ON

WELP.

AWKWARD ENDS. SHORT POSTS. THAT’S NICE.