[lit-ideas] Richard Nixon was not a Quaker
- From: Austin Meredith <Kouroo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:43:17 -0500
>It's no worse than when a Quaker president led the U.S. through the worst
>part of the Vietnam war....
Richard Nixon was not a Quaker. He wasn't even religious. He was a
religious posturer.
His mother was a member of a "Quaker Church" in Whittier, California (not
his father). Now, please note that there is an ocean of difference between
a "Quaker Church" and a "Quaker Meeting." These "Quaker Churches" are no
different from any other little Protestant denomination. They don't have
the Peace Testimony, for instance, they have Youth For Christ. They don't
do silent worship, for instance, they have a preacher and sermons and
hymns. Etc.
Whittier, California is a bedroom suburb of Los Angeles, so why don't you
say that Dick Nixon grew up as a Los Angeles brat? That would be more
accurate than terming him a Quaker.
When Nixon was president, he didn't hang out with Quakers, he hung out with
the likes of the Reverend Billy Graham. He did attend a Quaker worship
once, while he was in Washington, but something unpleasant happened, a
Quaker spoke to him, and so he never came back. Ordinarily, Nixon's
photo-op religious moments were as he came out of one or another Protestant
church in Washington.
Don't lay this one on us. Richard Nixon is not our fault.
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