I've tried to give a fair two-minute summary of Quakerism couple of times (when asked), and I've heard other folks do the same. One of the things that I think happens is that the Spirit gets lost in the details; the goodness (and I do believe there is goodness) gets lost in the procedure and the technicalities.
Quakerism does not exist to create procedures, dogmas, technicalities, whatever, independently of basic human values of love, kindness, and respect. If a Quaker-habit can't be explained in terms of these values, perhaps there is a good reason for it. Perhaps not.
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