well thanx for that tit bit, at leastoh really? in england----must have been the "shakers" that hit my mind-----that is interesting since the quaker boyfriend of my youth------his FATHER was from england When did I ever say I know a LOT about zoroastrians? I have met only two ------they were from Bombay----and freinds to a jewish girl I know from there. ----you may be referring to the fact that I mentioned that zoroasters are mentioned in the talmud-----Jews did live in Persia during the pre islamic era there. Everything went well until one of their kings decided not to like the jewish insistence "god is one"------since zoroastrianism is not actually strictly monotheistic ----so there was some minor trouble
the quakers were heavily persecuted in merrie old england by the then hugely intolerant state church of england before the toleration acts so they fled to the land of the free in numbers, including billy penn who was english not american
well before the USA was even dreamed of
but except for nixon they are good guys and gals even tho I no longer belong
They do have an excellent reputation in the USA ----and still run their schools----they were given conscientious objector status almost automatically during world war II -----but I believe they assimilate at a high rate