Quote from: Cassia on October 27, 2020, 09:01:16 AM
The "Shakers" believe that women and and men have equal importance and that their Mother Ann Lee is a female incarnation of Jesus.
Shakers were celibate. There are not a lot of them for some reason. I hereby invite all religions to adopt the practice of celibacy!!!
So you support Catholic orthodoxy for priests/monks/nuns? They are not extinct. Shakers are, because they were not a religious community within a broader society, but a totalitarian commune. In that respect many here would endorse that aspect of their life style. Think extreme kibbutz before Palestine was recolonized.
The Shakers are quite interesting, the Anglo-sphere produced many interesting religious variants from 1600-1800 including Mormonism. People like the Shakers now, because of their hand made simple style furniture ;-)