The secret cult of generational Satanists I have come to name the "Salem Witches" were heavily bound up in Quakerism, although I have yet to discern in precisely what way.
I completely discount the idea that this particular small group held any religion to heart other than what we might crudely call Satanism (there is a long story attached). My best guess, and the lines along which I would investigate if I ever get there, is that they created (or infiltrated and subverted) a sect that they could entirely control.
As for George Fox, I have no doubt he was one of these Satanists. There were, in fact, three Foxes--Hannah, Jabez, and Rebecca--involved in the fake Salem Witch Trials.
Just a simple search for "george fox salem witch trials" yields as the first result:
There is a people not so rigid as others are at Boston and there are great desires among them after the Truth. Some there are, as I hear, convinced who meet in silence at a place called Salem."-Henry Fell (in a letter dated 1656) June 27, 1658
So when I read that Professor Dutton titled his book, The Quaker Question: Exposing the Sect That Really Rules the World, I am not at all surprised. If only the professor had any idea how deep it really goes.
The secret cult of generational Satanists I have come to name the "Salem Witches" were heavily bound up in Quakerism, although I have yet to discern in precisely what way.
I completely discount the idea that this particular small group held any religion to heart other than what we might crudely call Satanism (there is a long story attached). My best guess, and the lines along which I would investigate if I ever get there, is that they created (or infiltrated and subverted) a sect that they could entirely control.
As for George Fox, I have no doubt he was one of these Satanists. There were, in fact, three Foxes--Hannah, Jabez, and Rebecca--involved in the fake Salem Witch Trials.
Just a simple search for "george fox salem witch trials" yields as the first result:
My Quaker ancestors: A Story of the Early Quaker Trials (Ancestry Archives 3/22/2015)
So when I read that Professor Dutton titled his book, The Quaker Question: Exposing the Sect That Really Rules the World, I am not at all surprised. If only the professor had any idea how deep it really goes.