http://disqus.com/by/charlesnorrie/enThu, 22 Oct 2009 10:54:43 -0000http://quakerreflections.blogspot.com/2009/09/year-5770.html#comment-20784141<p>"I am a Jew who prefers to worship in the manner of Friends."</p><p>That is a lovely sentence.</p><p>As a man who moved from conventional Anglicanism, through some attachment to Quakerism in my adolescence and have ended up a strong agnostic, I have followed a similar path.</p><p>The reason I am not a Quaker, despite their inclusiveness towards all people of truth faith, is that I consider myself not to be good enough to be a Quaker.</p><p>A strange doctrine: you exclude yourself on the grounds of you own moral failure.</p><p>So be it.</p><p>Charles</p>charlesnorrieThu, 22 Oct 2009 10:54:43 -0000