Amy Jarrett....there are Jarretts in the tree....I wonder where you fit in

Thomas Maxwell - I am a life long Friend, but I am certainly no Christian! blasphemy? hardly. Nowhere in my 61 years of experience with Friends have I ever heard the proposition that we are Friends "of his"(Jesus), but Friends of the Light, Friends of the Truth. The real genius of the Society of Friends is continuing revelation. The truth for me has been revealed in other places than Christianity which, now, I see as so mixed up with legend and allegory it cannot not be taken literally. If one does take it literally, they miss the value and the point entirely. So much of the bible, including the new testament, is made up of inaccurate linguistic interpretation, astrology, legend, morphing historical stories handed down through generations when no written text could exist that taken literally it loses it's value. Christianity was taken over by those in power in the 4th c. and used as a means of political control for centuries. Little of it's history can be trusted to have much to do with any of the intent of the prophets and spiritual leaders through time.