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MarkCharles

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6. Why not make your point? Afraid?
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 08:14 PM
Mar 2012

I have a great familiarity with the Shakers, having lived around two of their prior communities for over 20 years. I studied and reviewed hundreds of documents from these true-believers, most of whom denied their human bodies, their own reproductive options, their own legacy.

I know more about them than perhaps any OTHER religious group, extremist or otherwise, and, believe me, I have studied dozens of books about all the 'soup to nuts' religions of the last 700 years, which takes me back to the various Catholics and Orthodox religions of the times of Columbus.

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