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> Just as there was difference in eating habits, a range of religious affiliations existed among the North American Phalanx's resident members. Included among t
by missosoup 7y ago
> Just as there was difference in eating habits, a range of religious affiliations existed among the North American Phalanx's resident members. Included among the community's ranks were Unitarians, Presbyterians, Quakers, Baptists, Episcopalians, Jews, Shakers, as well as agnostics and atheists.[18] While religious matters were frequently the object of discussion and debate, heated division over religious topics does not seem to have occurred in the community until 1853, with the climate sharpening as the end of the institution approached.
You can't have a tight community like this unless the members are all homogeneous in traditions, beliefs, values, etc. This was doomed from the start.
- peteretep 7y agoLasted ten years, tho
- abathur 7y agoMaybe true, but don't lose sight of the fact that "Unitarians, Presbyterians, Quakers, Baptists, Episcopalians, Jews, Shakers" all come from the same tradition/belief/value family tree, as it were. They were all once tight communities "homogeneous in traditions, beliefs, values, etc." that eventually split (though perhaps they weren't still "tight" communities by the time of those splits). In any case, people are good at finding things to disagree about--and groups of people in elective association are good at fracturing over disagreements.
- iron0013 7y ago"You can't have a tight community like this unless the members are all homogeneous in traditions, beliefs, values, etc." Citation needed.