Are Quakers considered as still good Christians?
In the UK many chocolate companies originally were founded by Quaker families such as Fry’s and Cadbury’s, at a time when working people were oppressed by their Victorian bosses. In order to lead by example, in Birmingham, England, a whole village (Bournville – now a suburb of the city) was built by the Quaker family in order that their workers should not live in squalor like many other factory workers but live in relative comfort. That village still exists today, as does the Cadbury factory, and is built round one of the largest Quaker meeting houses in the country – symbolic of the fact that the Quakers who built the place wanted the meeting house to be in the centre of the village – to symbolise God being in the centre of their lives.
